John Bowman, with his worn Michigan International Speedway cap, sat proudly next to his home-bred Jersey dairy cows. “If you come back on Thursday, you can get your picture with a prize winner,” he said confidently, leaning back in his folding chair. For Bowman’s family, coming back to the Hillsdale County Fair this week is...
The only easy way to see a 578-pound pumpkin this week is to attend “The Most Popular Fair on Earth” as soon as possible. Anyone who has driven past the grandstand on M-99 has seen the famous motto of the Hillsdale County Fair, which goes on through Saturday. Students have just a few more days...
In both home football games the Chargers have played this season, students have made a mass exodus from their spots in the stands right before the second half. The third and fourth quarters of each game see no more than a couple dozen fans spread across the student-section bleachers, a sad comparison to the packed...
Gamers must have shuddered in their parents’ basement when news of China’s crackdown on video games hit headlines. Would their governments overstep their boundaries and exercise parental power? Governments should not restrict video-game use. That’s a job for the parents. Yet China has recently “barred online gamers under the age of 18 from playing on...
“I want to feel free again.” This seemingly innocuous statement in a recent commercial from Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services represents the most significant casualty of the COVID-19 era: Reality. In the commercial, Michigan HHS asked a series of people why they chose to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. While most of the interviewees...