Scott Welden checks grain prices on his phone the way some people check Instagram. “As a U.S. farmer, I watch the commodity trading like stockbrokers watch the market on Wall Street,” said Welden, who farms primarily soybeans, wheat, and corn in Jonesville, Michigan. “I keep looking at that app, and I’m like, I gotta stop...
The Sauk Theater in Jonesville is hosting The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company’s performance of “As You Like It” this Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10. The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company is Michigan’s only professional, year-round, touring Shakespeare company. Its mission is to bring Shakespeare stories to life all...
The story here starts simply, but its creeping normalcy ratchets “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) into a lasting terror. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), move to an old apartment building on the Upper East Side in New York. She wants children. He wants to be a successful stage actor. They soon befriend...
During the Trump era, Republicans have struggled to exhibit compassion. The GOP touts its principles, but without compassion those principles are worthless. President Trump ordered 5,000 soldiers to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to defend the country from a migrant caravan of women and children. In 1957, President Eisenhower gave similar orders, but...
I had the opportunity to learn directly how legislation is made when a former student of mine contacted me in 1983 about taking a leave from my position at the University of Michigan-Dearborn to become the economist for the Michigan Senate Republicans. Of course, I had heard the old quote from Otto von Bismarck, “If...