New Year’s Day is my favorite holiday. Don’t ask me why, because I wouldn’t be able to reasonably explain it, especially when there are so many other “important” holidays: Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, to name a few. But, there’s always been something special about New Year’s to me. My family never does anything special for the...
The federal government may be shut down in Washington, D.C. because of a political stalemate, but the streets of the town will be shut down for a different reason this weekend. On Friday, the annual March for Life will take place in the Capitol, and the next day, the annual Women’s March will follow. The...
The federal government shutdown has closed part of the United States Department of Agriculture office in Hillsdale County — cutting farmers off from financial and administrative services that will prove vital to decision making in the coming weeks. “It makes us a lot more uncertain on what we’re doing,” said Scott Welden, a grain farmer...
On Jan. 3 Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan’s 13th congressional district, was sworn into the 116th session of U.S. Congress. The same day that Tlaib was sworn into office, she told a group of her supporters, regarding President Donald Trump, “we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf*****.” Tlaib’s comments...
Student, Air Force vet writes songs that tell his story Freshman Johnny Cole Murdock grew up listening to country music, but really fell in love with guitar the first time he heard the California-based heavy metal band Metallica. “I didn’t know you could play guitar like that,” Murdock said. “At that point, I wanted...