Members of GOAL leadership pose with check from Hillsdale County Community Foundation. Courtesy | Rachel Marinko The Hillsdale County Community Foundation awarded $25,778 to GOAL earlier this month, providing financial support to the college’s volunteering program for the eighth consecutive year. “It enhances what the program is able to do for those people,” said Rachel...
Author: Thomas McKenna (Thomas McKenna)
Republican Medicaid reforms were too modest
To hear Democrats and the press corps tell it, Republican lawmakers took away healthcare from millions of poor and disabled people this summer. “People will die,” Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in May. “Trump’s Bill Slashes the Safety Net,” The New York Times wrote in June. But push aside the rhetoric and look...
Bentley, Sessions win August mayoral primary race
Matthew Bentley and Scott Sessions advance to the November election. Courtesy | Robyn Beck Both candidates advance to the November election amid M-99 “road diet” tensions Ward 3 Councilman Matthew Bentley and former Mayor Scott Sessions earned spots on a November ballot for mayor of Hillsdale after winning a citywide primary earlier this month. Sessions...
Economics divides the Right
Since when did today’s American Right support expanding federal control of private companies? President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. government will take a 10% ownership stake in Intel through a “golden share” after announcing plans in June to do the same for U.S. Steel. That special share, in both deals, would give the federal...
Four candidates enter summer mayoral race
Hillsdale City Hall. Courtesy | Collegian Archives A special election will be held in August, followed by a run-off in November Four candidates filed to run in Hillsdale’s Aug. 5 primary election for mayor, which will begin the two-step process of choosing former Mayor Adam Stockford’s successor. The deadline to get on the ballot passed...



