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Hillsdale takes third place in Forbes financial rankings

Hillsdale College received the top financial rating from Forbes this summer, as Congress exempted the college and several other schools from having to pay a new tax on endowments.  Forbes released its annual college financial ratings list earlier this summer, ranking private American colleges based on the size of their endowments, management of those assets,...

DOGE falters
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DOGE falters

The $7 billion cut by the Department of Government Efficiency thus far is only about 1/1,000th of the 2024 federal budget. DOGE hasn’t taken a chainsaw to federal spending — just a pocket knife. Both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tout the work of DOGE as a promise they’ve kept to fiscal conservatives. But...

Stating the obvious is protecting your church
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Stating the obvious is protecting your church

President Donald Trump’s new executive order declaring that there are only two genders does much more than restore objective truth to government policy. It protects every church, college, and charity that defends this truth.  On Jan. 20, one of the very first actions of Trump’s second term was to make it federal policy that the...

State rep to talk American farming
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State rep to talk American farming

Hillsdale College Republicans will host Pennsylvania state Rep. Barb Gleim to talk about American farming Feb. 11 at 8 p.m.  The lecture, titled “American Farmers Under Attack: Fake Meat, Raw Milk, and Foreign Ownership,” will be held in the Heritage Room in Mossey Library and will focus on the importance of supporting American agriculture.  “Barb...

MDOT to raise low bridge on W. Hallett Street
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MDOT to raise low bridge on W. Hallett Street

The railroad bridge on West Hallett Street was forced to close for two weeks after it was hit by a garbage truck last year. Catherine Maxwell | Collegian The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to raise the West Hallett Street railroad overpass after numerous collisions, but construction won’t begin before 2027. City Manager David Mackie...