“Sing God a simple song Lauda, Laude” The warm, meandering melody from Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” spills from the singer’s lips, filling the church sanctuary from wall to wall. “Make it up as you go along Lauda, Laude” For Nick Nestorak ’11, “A Simple Song” was only the beginning of an intimately worshipful, yet also dauntingly...
Author: Brooke Conrad (Brooke Conrad)
Staff Profiles: Nathan Grime, Sports Editor
Long before he published his first story, at age 5, Nathan Grime was tuning in to St. Louis Cardinals games on the radio after his bedtime and looking for the writeups in the paper the next day. “I was a little kid, so my bedtime was like 8 o‘clock, so I would always turn...
No more Sweethearts this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, stores around the nation are all out of Sweethearts — the popular heart-shaped, message-carrying candy that has sweetened the holiday since the turn of the 20th century. After Necco’s candy factory went out of business last year, the company sold Sweethearts to Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio, about a 45-minute drive...
From Green Bay to Hillsdale: Legacy of local radio legend Tony Flynn lives on
“Iiiiiiiiittt’s Charger time!” The familiar voice of WCSR’s long-time broadcast icon Tony Flynn trumpeted over the airwaves. Before the start of every football game, Flynn was up in the college press box preparing for another fast-paced segment of play-by-play Hillsdale College Charger coverage. “He would be up in the press box, and he’d stand up...
Q&A: Arthur Laffer
Art Laffer is a prominent supply-side economist who served as a member of former President Ronald Reagan’s economic advisory board and as an adviser for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. He is well-known for developing a theory about the relationship between tax rates and tax revenues, now referred to as the “Laffer Curve.” Laffer is...