Editorial – Page 51

Godwin-Wayland 1st-round game shows need for hoops seeding

February 15, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. The Michigan High School Athletic Association should seriously consider seeding for post-season basketball tournaments. This assertion comes in the wake of the awful news that two of the state’s top five Class B basketball...

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President Obama showed lack of class, sympathy in Scalia’s death

February 15, 2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away 13 February and our president rushed off the golf course to express a few seconds of sympathy. A very brief statement of sympathy in which our president could not help himself in getting in a few digs at the late Justice Scalia’s interpretation...

Best explanation of No. 22 Don Japinga jersey controversy?

February 2, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. The editorial I wrote about the jersey retirement of Don Japinga certainly has stirred memories and controversy. Because some Wayland High School players indeed have worn No. 22 over the past 30 years, there...

Let’s make certain no WHS football player wears No. 22 again

January 26, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor. “History… is bunk.” — Industrialist Henry Ford We put too much stock in the importance of ceremonies and cosmetic honors, but when we retire the football jersey of a hometown hero, we should make...

Leighton Township should deny rezoning request for air strip

January 16, 2016

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. I urge the Leighton Township Board and Planning Commission to deny a rezoning request to accommodate an air strip near 144th and Kalamazoo Avenues. My position is very similar to my opposition to...

Let’s make special election March 8 a referendum on Snyder, GOP

January 10, 2016

If I were David Gernant, Democratic Party candidate for former State Rep. Cindy Gamrat’s 80th District seat, and I’m not, I would scream from the mountaintops that, “If you care about the issues, you’ll throw these rascals out.” Gernant has a mountain to climb in a special election March 8...

When will Michigan voters throw out the rascals in Lansing?

December 26, 2015

I continue to observe the behavior of the Michigan Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder with apoplectic astonishment. I also continue to be depressed that too few people seem to share my outrage. What will it take for the citizens of this state to rise up in righteous indignation and show...

So let’s all ask for absentee ballots next August and November

December 17, 2015

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. Anybody with an IQ above mineral life understands if you want people to do the right thing, you make it easy or convenient for them to do it. The people behind recycling have used...

Recreation authority is a splendid idea, but why the cloak and dagger?

December 11, 2015

ACHTUNG: This is not a "fair and balanced" story. It is an editorial by the editor. News of the exploration of establishing a recreational authority in the Wayland Union School District leaves me with mixed emotions. I think a recreational authority to reboot discarded recreation programs would be a splendid...

Wayland schools deserve criticism of spending, but also a ‘yes’ on bond

December 2, 2015

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” story. It is an editorial by the editor: Voters in the Wayland Union School district will be deciding a bond issue in either August or November next year, and I would be guilty of having a keen grasp of the obvious if...

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