Columns

By Jim Tisdel, director of Corporate and Community Education, North Central Michigan College There are more than 4,450 jobs available here in northwest Michigan that are going unfilled, according to Labor…

by Barry Hastings By Wednesday morning (less than a week ago) pollsters were reporting fully 25% of Republican office-holders around the nation have dumped Donald Trump into their personal, "Not…

by Robert M. Traxler I have spent the last nine hours reading the WikiLeaks e-mails hacked illegally from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Most are boring and hardly worth the…

"You don't have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say, 'that's not right.' You just have to be…

by Barry Hastings Friday was quite a day, what with the release of a 10- to 12-year-old recording of Trump, talking "women" with Billy Bush, in which he is clearly…

Viewing the vice presidential debate, Senator Tim Kaine’s performance could be illustrated as “little dog” syndrome – that barking, squealing, little dust mop of a dog nipping at your heels.…

Michigan advocates seek explicit right to education Lawyers fighting a lawsuit on behalf of Detroit schoolchildren hope to persuade the federal courts to recognize a constitutional right to literacy. But some Michigan…

By Barry Hastings So, the silver-haired coyote (not to call him a skulking scavenger), Mike Pence certainly belongs on the ticket he's part of. I didn't hear him make a…

by Amy Kerr Hardin Freedom of speech is front and center again on American campuses as the Department of Education continues to abuse its authority over university policies. Dirty jokes…