Follow Natalie on Twitter “I got my son back because I worked here. It kept me out of trouble and on the right path,” Hillsdale resident Stacey Osborn said. She was an employee at Tastes of Life, a local restaurant in Industrial Park that closed on Sept. 28 because of Michigan’s minimum wage increase. Pastor...
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October 12, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
You can visit Almost, Maine: Tower players kick off year with popular romantic comedy set in northern New England
Broken hearts in paper bags and love in big red sacks. Amidst snowy-white evergreens and under a starry sky the Tower Players began their production of “Almost Maine” yesterday. They continue performing through Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the Sage Center for the Arts’ Markel Auditorium. John Cariani’s contemporary “real romantic comedy” meets...
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October 12, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Haute Couture: Tower Players begin rehearsal for “Misanthrope”
Next month, “The Misanthrope” by Molière will debut on the Tower Player’s stage. The play, originally written in 1666, tackles human foibles and behaviors that director and Theater Department Chairman George Angell said are just as worthy of having fun poked at them today as they did when the play first showed. It will run...
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October 2, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The fury of the scorned
The Washington Post reports that as many as 70 percent of married men cheat on their wives, while the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that only 14 percent of violent crimes are committed by women. Men cheat, but women don’t kill. Gillian Flynn entangles the typical with the atypical, the believable with the unbelievable, in...
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September 18, 2014July 12, 2022News
Obamacare plagues employment
Beginning this summer, part-time Hillsdale student workers were not able to work 40 hours a week on campus because the Affordable Care Act restricts seasonal hours. Before this legislation, some students worked 40-hour weeks over the summer and were limited to 20 hours a week during the semester. Also, the ACA cost Hillsdale $167,000 more...