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Ranger Rick: Chicago – Oh, how the mighty has fallen!

Many people from this area love to visit Chicago for shopping, professional sports and cultural events. The tall buildings, O’Hare Airport (where many flights originate to other destinations), Shoreline Drive,…

Editor April 14, 2015

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Monday Moan: STEM and the myth about jobs in the future

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net The Paper Chase The Paper Chase was a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner and John Houseman, which was based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s…

Editor April 12, 2015

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The Muck Starts Here: Another ‘no’ voter in May 5 election

By Barry Hastings As of April 8, polls indicate a "no" vote on the sales tax increase the legislature wants you to vote for next month (so they won't have…

Editor April 12, 2015

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Changing sub teachers provider won’t really solve problem

I hear tell Wayland schools and the other districts in the Allegan Educational Services Agency (AAESA) no longer will hire substitute teachers through Professional Education Services Group of Caledonia. I…

Editor April 11, 2015

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Army Bob: Equal pay for equal work for women a bogus issue?

Equal pay for equal work has been the law, some could argue, since 1920. Most would agree that the 1963 Equal Pay Law passed by Congress and then signed by…

Editor April 9, 2015

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Ranger Rick: Calling it whatever you want doesn’t make it so

When I was a young man, 14 or 15 years old (this would be mid-sixties), an old man told me I would see and experience things in my lifetime that…

Editor April 7, 2015

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Monday moan: All I know is what I’ve been reading on line

By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net "Well, what shall I talk about? I ain't got anything funny to say. All I know is what I read in the papers." – Will Rogers…

Editor April 5, 2015

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The Muck Starts Here: Skeptical about past, present and future

by Barry Hastings Call me Jeremiah. . ., 'cause I'm skeptical about the past, the present and the future. The past because I suspect our national intelligence, military, and…

Editor April 5, 2015

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Democracy Tree: Aramark employee canned for whistleblowing

“Aramark did not fire the problem, Aramark fired the employee that was reporting the problems they failed to fix.” — Jon Costa, Aramark whistleblower Last year, Democracy Tree reported on…

Editor April 4, 2015

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Army Bob: Bergdahl not a smoking gun, but a smoking Howitzer

The report Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been read court martial charges tells only a part of the story. Article 85 (Desertion) is an intent crime the main burden of proof…

Editor April 2, 2015