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Hillsdale public schools pension debt totals $18M
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Hillsdale public schools pension debt totals $18M

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...

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Hillsdale to launch new media app by fall semester

Hillsdale College aims to release a new website and app by this fall, with the website designed to unify all of the college’s current websites into one, and the app will place the college’s online teaching material in one location.  Executive Director of Online Learning Jeremiah Regan ’08 said Hillsdale’s new website will centralize its...

Residents fear state intervention over solar farm
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Residents fear state intervention over solar farm

The Fayette Township planning commission held an emergency meeting Jan. 23. Thomas McKenna | Collegian Fayette Township Board holds emergency meeting to accept resignations from clerks. Residents in and around Fayette Township are concerned that the company behind a plan to turn 1,350 acres of farmland into a solar farm will ask the state government...

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Mock trial sweeps Princeton at first spring competition

Several Mock Trial competitors took home outstanding individual awards, with Hillsdale’s A Team placing fifth in a tournament that moved onto Zoom due to bad weather Jan. 24-25. Hillsdale’s A Team was supposed to compete at Georgetown University. It swept Princeton University 2-0 in the first round, swept Penn State University’s B Team 2-0 in...

Letter to the Editor: Trump’s Venezuela policy isn’t contradictory
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Letter to the Editor: Trump’s Venezuela policy isn’t contradictory

Courtesy | Unsplash Assistant Professor of History Miles Smith’s recent Opinions article (“Reject brazen interventionism,” Jan. 22) helpfully warns against the perils of toppling foreign governments. However, the article fails to address the most important justification for the Venezuela operation: self-defense. President Donald Trump’s decision to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is entirely consistent with...