Columns

High school athletic arenas nowadays include overlooked and underreported “orphan sports,” meaning just about anything other than football or basketball. Though Wayland has a solid tradition in softball, sports such…

by Barry Hastings There's a scandal brewing at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans. It broke the day before Mr. Dalton shot up Kalamazoo, and it disappeared in the media…

We anthropology students at Grand Valley learned early that using the term "arrowhead" was unacceptable, at least scholastically. At institutions of higher learning, those artifacts are called projectile points. It…

In the many years I’ve commuted and traveled state and federal roads, I’ve notice many unusual things. One morning about five years ago on a nice warm spring morning, I…

Just Google the phrase “construction worker shortage Michigan.” After decades of  the “college for all” mantra, too many K-12 public schools have divested themselves of their vocational and traditional “shop”…

by Barry Hastings And won't it be interesting to learn about his motivation? Even more interesting will be learning the motivation of Jason Dalton's neighbors who, time after time that…

As the effluence of Gov. Snyder’s carefully timed bolus of damning emails was discharged in bulk on the media last Friday, the political fallout went from bad to worse for…