Parallel parking is now available only on the east side of Union Street instead of the west side, thanks to a traffic control order approved by the Hillsdale City Council during its Monday meeting. The order affects the portion of Union Street located between Barber Drive and College Street, which gives access to several local...
Month: November 2015
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Mayor defends city clerk appointment
The Hillsdale City Council weighed in on Mayor Scott Sessions’ proposition to appoint interim city clerk Michelle Loren as the new, full-time clerk after cancelling the proposition in a 5-2 vote at its Nov.2 meeting. The council is now advertising the full-time clerk position until the end of November, when it will review applicants and...
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Record number of HHS seniors apply to college
Nearly 99 percent of Hillsdale High School seniors completed college applications during the Michigan College Application Week, which ran Oct. 26 through Oct. 30. Many of them may be the first in their family’s history to attend college. “Of the 86 seniors who applied, 30 are the first persons in their family to try to...
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France has a chance to redeem modern war
In response to the horrifying murder of 129 civilians in Paris last Friday, France must re-civilize western war making. The Islamic State claimed responsibility Saturday for the coordinated strikes by eight operatives, describing the attack as retaliation for French military action in Syria. The same day, French President Francois Hollande called Friday’s massacre “an act...
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Conservatism and black America
Only five years ago, white America still held the comfortable belief that racism, the grimmest specter of our nation’s past, was finally taking its last feeble gasps. Since then, however, that specter has come roaring back in a barrage of napalm-grade controversies, from Trayvon Martin to Yale University, that have punched gaping holes in our...