T he popular television show “South Park” began its fall season with an episode about parents calling for a change in the rules of football to promote safety. This results in a complete overhaul of the game in which tackles are replaced with hugs, trash talk is replaced with compliments, and the overall goal is...
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October 26, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
MADD: From well-intended advocacy to misguided bureacracy
No one wants to criticize Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The name of the group conjures up an image of noble women working to enact policies to ensure that their innocent children will not suffer harm because of intoxicated people behind the wheel. This would be a commendable effort if it were the only objective. MADD,...
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October 26, 2012July 12, 2022City News
The 3-Minute Interview: Nancy DeBacker
DeBacker is the director of Alpha Omega Women’s Care Center, a life-affirming pregnancy resource center on Howell Street in Hillsdale, Mich. The center held a fundraiser called “Spice of Life” Oct. 19 at Hillsdale United Brethren Church with speaker Kirk Walden. How did you personally get involved with Alpha Omega? I was a young...
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October 26, 2012July 12, 2022City News
Professors, residents voice opposition to income tax
This fall, residents of Hillsdale will vote on a new income tax that will affect both residents and non-residents who work in the city. Though supporters of the tax claim revenue is needed to fix Hillsdale’s roads, opponents of the tax consider it wrong. “It’s grotesquely unjust,” said Paul Rahe, professor of history. “People living...
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October 26, 2012July 12, 2022City News
2012: Worst apple shortage in six decades
Ninety percent of Michigan’s apple crop was destroyed in 2012 due to temperature fluctuations in the spring, bringing difficulty to orchards around the state and in the Hillsdale area. “We’re used to fluctuations in the weather,” Damon Glei, partial owner at Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses, said. “But this is the most extreme case that we...