As a retired school physical therapist who worked in school special educations departments throughout the central Upper Peninsula, I am deeply concerned about efforts to dismantle public education. There is a proposal in Congress to slash $12 billion from education in the budget bill. ...
My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed. On thick paper, drawings are etched of wheat fields and farmers, statues and monuments. Quotes from great Americans — former Presidents George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as ...
To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols this week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted today through Friday in ...
Dear Don, Yes, this is one of those kinds of letters. A conversation/discussion or negotiation has not been possible. Your uncontrollable rants of your way or the highway are about you and what you want, period. At the outset, you spoke about valuing values/American values no less. Which of ...
The government is "shut down." Media call this a "crisis." A "crisis (with) no deal in sight," says Fox News. Reuters says it's a "key risk to US stability." But when I look around, I see business as usual -- families raise children, workers work, people play music ... The media act ...
Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week. We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps buried ...