If Kuehler wasn’t a piano teacher, he would be a professional power washer. Courtesy | Daniel Kuehler In this Quick Hits, Artist and Teacher of Piano Daniel Kuehler discusses Top Gun, Legos, and concerts. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? A garbage man. Who wouldn’t want to...
The rubble of a home in Altadena, California, nearly a year after the January 2025 fire. Courtesy | Avedis Maljanian As the Eaton Fire ravaged my hometown of Altadena, California last year, my family and our neighbors focused on our lives and our property. We just wanted to survive. As the fire subsided, we didn’t...
Courtesy | Unsplash Americans have been sold a cheap kind of patriotism. We celebrate American holidays and drape our flags, but true love of country is more rare than we think. Americans, especially young Americans, do not know our history enough to love it, and we don’t love it enough to preserve it. Our 250th...
Hillsdale Charger baseball gather for 2025-26 season team picture Courtesy | Hillsdale Athletic Department After an appearance in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference semifinals last season, the Hillsdale baseball team is projected to finish third in the G-MAC North Division, according to the preseason coaches poll, and will start its season with three-game series against...
Eighteen million dollars. That is how much unfunded pension debt burdens the Hillsdale Intermediate School District, according to official state audit reports. It’s worth nearly 80% of the district’s assets. For Chuck North, superintendent of the special education district, this number isn’t alarming — it is a sign of a teacher pension system being reformed...