In October, Tastes of Life, a locally-owned restaurant ministry announced it will close because the increased costs it will incur from raising wages surpasses its revenue. The business employed 12 people struggling with terminal illnesses, family problems, or criminal records. These employees, whom Tastes of Life provided counseling, job experience, and a small income, all...
Month: December 2014
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Remembering Aleksandras Shtromas
Former Hillsdale Professor of Politics Aleksandras Shtromas lived under two of the greatest tyrannies in the history of mankind. The horrors of the Nazi regime and Soviet Union were matched only by his courage, intelligence, and perseverance. Shtromas brought this unmatched, firsthand experience to his students. “After everything he had been through, he used to...
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In Focus: Books that read us
I have on my desk a beautiful, decaying pamphlet with “Grey’s Elegy” faded into the fronting green, mottled paper in a looping type that still displays some of the original gold. It’s spine has fallen off during one of the 101 years since “Mary” received it as a present on Dec. 25, 1913 — the...
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Hillsdale, you’re on the air
Thousands of radio listeners tune in each week to a conservative talk show recorded in the apartment of a Hillsdale student whose guests have included Herman Cain in a segment called “The View From Hillsdale.” Junior Richard Caster in 2009 was serving as the head of the Ozark Tea Party in Arkansas when he was...
