WHIP students visited Arlington National Cemetery last month | Courtesy Arlington National Cemetery Students in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program honored the sacrifices of brave American soldiers, including many from Hillsdale, on visits to Arlington National Cemetery and Gettysburg last month. At Arlington, students visited the graves of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an alumna who was a...
Student journalism protects liberty on college campuses, according to Collegian editor-in-chief and senior Maggie Hroncich at a student journalism panel on Oct. 21. “Thomas Jefferson once said that liberty depends on freedom of the press, and I think the same is true for on-campus liberty,” Hroncich said. Seven student journalists, including Hroncich, joined Senior Journalism...
When Tudor Dixon won the Republican nomination to challenge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, she did so in a field of candidates cut in half after the state’s handling of alleged fraud deprived primary voters of some of their top choices. Five Republican candidates failed to qualify for the ballot after the Bureau of Elections removed thousands...
Hillsdale County mailed new voter identification cards to registered voters last week, following redistricting in the wake of the 2020 census. Chief Deputy County Clerk Abe Dane said the cards will show voters’ congressional, state representative, and state senate districts among other information, but are not required to vote. State law requires township, city, or...
A federal judge will hear a motion on May 18 to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a local health agency’s quarantine order last year. Among other things, the order required schoolchildren who had been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 to be quarantined. Health Officer Rebecca Burns of the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency issued...