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Basura: A city slicker’s 1st ride, on a horse named ‘Threeway’

September 1, 2016

“The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man.” Ronald Reagan I’ve been a city guy all my life, but on occasion, I have had the opportunity to ride a horse. As a kid, I always loved westerns, especially Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger....

Ranger Rick: Eventually, the welfare parasite will kill its host

August 30, 2016

Think back to years ago in Wayland, if you are age 45 or older, to a time when you knew when to come home for dinner because you heard the 5 o’clock whistle blow for the shift change at Pet Milk. This was years before what it is now called....

Monday Moanin’: Eight things to know about Michigan ACT scores

August 28, 2016

(Detroit Free Press) ACT scores are up slightly for Michigan students, according to national data released today. Now the SAT is part of the state high school exam. Michigan students will still be able to take the ACT, but it’s likely the number of students sitting for it will decrease.The average composite...

Matt Urbanowicz: Even more decorated than Audie Murphy

August 28, 2016

by Barry Hastings He was bom in Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 25, 1919, while the wrap-up of World War I was being completed, and while U.S. Soldiers (Doughboys) of the day were serving with the "White Russians," trying to overthrow the two-plus-year-old communist revolution of Lenin, and company. Many of them...

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Army Bob: Where is the media on Mr. Obama’s war?

August 26, 2016

by Robert M. Traxler Just where the heck are our friends in the media carping and harping on our invasion by land and air of Syria? When President Bush sent troops into a different country the media worked overtime finding fault; names like imperialist, Nazi, Fascist and bully were tossed...

Democracy Tree: ‘Trumpism’ disease infects the Michigan GOP

August 24, 2016

“He is projecting an image of hyper-masculinity, demeaning critics, brittle — brittleness in the face of criticism and the strongman idea that ‘trust me, I won’t be very specific, trust me, and I will take care of all your problems.’ And we are seeing in our — in our therapy...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care

August 23, 2016

The late, great comedian George Carlin, during one of his best live stand-up routines about 10 years ago, made the observation, “Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.” Carlin, as usual, was accurate in more ways than one. I thought about his quote Monday night during the school bond...

Ranger Rick: Our troubles can be traced to Chickenman times

August 23, 2016

Years ago, many years ago (50 years) a program on radio called “Chickenman” – the most fantastic crime fighter the world has ever known — came on every day on WLS radio and many other stations across the nation. Benton Harbor (aka “Chickenman”), the Commissioner, Miss Helfinger were just a...

Monday Moanin’: Adequacy study inadequate, but so is funding

August 21, 2016

by Jeff Salisbury Late in the Lame Duck legislative session of 2014, Democrats won what they thought was a major victory in getting the Republican-led legislature and Gov. Snyder to agree to a study of how much it actually costs to educate a child in Michigan. Though the study had...

Their ‘Finest Hours’: How the Coast Guard earns its pay

August 21, 2016

by Barry Hastings If you haven't read the book (or seen the movie) The Finest Hours, by Michael Touugias and Casey Sherman (Scribner paperback, 2015), run out and buy a copy, or take in the movie pronto. The book describes, in frightening detail, how the U.S. Coast Guard has been...

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