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Not long after music legend John Lennon was murdered, an old friend, state champion volleyball coach Marty Andrews enthusiastically told me he thought he once knew Lennon’s killer, Mark David…

My wife and I are headed south of the border for a bit. I love to snorkel. She loves to get out of the cold, and be away from the…

The Great Divide When you first start to read this I presume you are thinking, what divide? Between Democrats and Republicans, racial divide, Michigan vs. Michigan State? No, the divide…

By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ Despite declarations of disaster being announced, first by the otherwise powerless mayor (owing to the State of Michigan appointed emergency manager being in charge), as well…

By Barry Hastings In mid-September, 1955,1 turned 17 when a friend (who'd hit the mark a month or so earlier) and I took a ride to Battle Creek. We planned…

I was adopted in August 1947. I was four months old. I was the first of four adopted children. None of us were genetically related. My parents were amazing people.…

by Amy Kerr Hardin “There aren’t going to be any profiles of courage passed out to this chamber.” — House Minority Floor Leader Sam Singh (D-69) on the duplicitous actions of…