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Local shops celebrate small businesses during holiday season
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Local shops celebrate small businesses during holiday season

As shoppers bombarded stores as early as Thursday evening for Black Friday sales and others shopped online for Cyber Monday deals, local shops celebrated Small Business Saturday as a way to promote businesses in town and encourage people to shop local.  Many of Hillsdale’s local businesses participated with special deals, extended hours and new merchandise....

The migrant caravan is the only pressing foreign policy issue
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The migrant caravan is the only pressing foreign policy issue

Over the last week, three foreign policy events have dominated the news cycle: The Russian seizure of Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait; the CIA’s discovery that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ordered the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi; and the storming of our southern border by the Central American migrant...

The Weekly: Keep giving thanks
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The Weekly: Keep giving thanks

Thanksgiving Day is over, and the Christmas season has begun — right out of the gate Friday morning (no, Thursday afternoon!) with Black Friday shopping sprees, Cyber Monday sales, and our token #GivingTuesday. The National Retail Federation estimates record spending over the weekend amounted to as much as $720 billion. For college students, the temptation...

The Crimes of J.K. Rowling
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The Crimes of J.K. Rowling

In the movie titled after his own despicable actions, the dark wizard Grindelwald commits no truly evil action. In the franchise that’s supposed to deal with fantastic beasts, the beasts hardly see any screen time in the newest film of the Harry Potter universe, “The Crimes of Grindelwald.”  The film starts in 1927 with the...