Most job interviews last less than twenty minutes. Peter Staab’s took all day. In August of last year, Staab volunteered his car to drive an obscure Nebraska Republican around the state for a few town-hall meetings. The next week, Staab became the official driver and first staffer for the Ben Sasse Senate campaign. Now the...
One bite of a Michigan Honeycrisp. That’s all Damon Glei thinks it will take. Every week, trucks drive 10 minutes from Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses to deliver more than 1,200 apples to Bon Appetit, Hillsdale College’s food service. Beginning with 50 trees and 40 acres, the Glei family has grown apples for nearly a century....
A car moves slowly along a single-track dirt road, its wheels treading cautiously. They alone break the silence. Against cloudy skies and a night already fallen, its headlights challenge a darkness that crushes from all sides. To the left, through a thicket of trees, stands a dilapidated barn with no visible means of access. To...
A nine-year-old boy in senior Evan Sassack’s neighborhood was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma four years ago. In a drive to help find a stem cell donor, over 200 people, including Sassack, gave DNA cheek swab samples to Be the Match, an organization that connects volunteer blood and marrow donors with patients in need. Although Sassack...