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Residents debate homelessness at city council meeting
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Residents debate homelessness at city council meeting

Hillsdale Mayor Adam Stockford called for re-forming a homelessness task force, after Councilman Robert Socha brought up a Hillsdale resident’s letter criticizing the city’s response at the Monday city council meeting. Resident Nicholas Rorick claimed in his letter that Hillsdale’s homeless population has created a public safety problem. Rorick alleged that a homeless man exposed...

The 1975 harps on nostalgia
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The 1975 harps on nostalgia

The 1975’s fifth studio album “Being Funny In A Foreign Language” is a lesson in yearning.  Composed of 11 tracks, The 1975 brings old listeners back to when they were first fans, most likely in formative years of their teenhood. Whether it’s chasing after a girl in tracks like “Happiness” or reigniting teenage rebellion in...

Hillsdale is a leader in promoting campus free speech
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Hillsdale is a leader in promoting campus free speech

Students at Hillsdale College enjoy the country’s best campus environment for free speech, according to a recent report which surveyed 45,000 students from 208 schools. Hillsdale College outperformed the entire field by a margin so wide that it borders on the comical, but was removed from the published results for having an overly restrictive speech...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer wins re-election over Tudor Dixon
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer wins re-election over Tudor Dixon

The Associated Press called the election for Democratic gov. Gretchen Whitmer early Wednesday morning. Courtesy | AP News Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will spend four more years in the governor’s mansion after winning 54.5% of the vote in Tuesday’s midterm election. Voters approved three ballot proposals, adding new amendments to the state constitution.  “We...

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Tower Players retell ‘Our Town’

Seventy-five years ago, The Tower Players presented a classic American tale of life, death, and humanity. This week, they will reproduce Thornton Wilder’s work “Our Town” to pay homage to those first performances.  “Our hope is that it not only honors the original Tower Players, students, and faculty, but that it honors the impulse to...