Columns

News this week of the death of singer-songwriter-activist Lesley Gore caused in me a variety of reactions. Way “back in the day,” during my formative and impressionable adolescent years, I…

Most people love kitties and/or puppies. They are cute and cuddly and love the attention. Billions of dollars are spent on food, care and shelter for cats and dogs each…

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net I spotted a notice online this weekend that there will be a special Wayland school board meeting — a committee-of-the-whole (that means all seven members) —…

by Barry Hastings The more I look at the mess we've let these (stupid) politicians get us into in the Middle East, the more it looks like Syria is going…

by Robert M. Traxler We are at war with an ideology, the ideology of radical Islam, in the same way we were at war with the ideology of communism during…

by Amy Kerr Hardin State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) introduced legislation earlier this month to allow second-parent adoptions. House Bill-4133 would allow unmarried partners of biological parents and sole…

After all these years, I finally dined at the Auction House Café Wednesday evening. The place has been a fixture in Wayland since 1936, and yet I didn’t eat there…

by Amy Kerr Hardin Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama) co-chaired the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast late last week. This event has since inflamed the delicate sensibilities of righteous Christians who apparently…

I have posted this before, but like most good hard-hitting opinion pieces (since Paul Harvey no longer graces our airwaves), using information to state the obvious produces the most profound…