Are you going to watch the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Thursday? And, if you were the moderator, what questions would you ask of those two candidates? The debate rules are: There will be no live audience. The candidates will stand for the 90-minute debate. No ...

The scorching temperatures of the last few days have shown us that Mother Nature can bake us if she wants to. With temperatures in the 90s and high humidity, the temperature felt close to triple digits more than once this week. We got a welcome cooldown at the end of the week, but we summer ...

A friend recently asked me if I knew of any great motivational speeches from the world of sports. He was involved in a large golf tournament every year and he liked to give his team a fun and memorable pep talk before starting the multi-day tournament. I mentioned the miracle speech that ...

I’ve been part of a foraging community for over four years. It all started during the COVID pandemic. I needed something; anything to offset all the new worries and threats, perceived or real. So, I channeled the new, temporary, isolation and social norms into learning. The woods and nature ...

The 2024 Kids Count Data Book reveals that Michigan ranks once again in the bottom 10 states for education, demonstrating the need for more investments in our schools and students. One area where we saw the greatest declines was in eighth-grade math achievement, where the share of students ...

The Onaway Area School District Board of Education has once again proven itself a laughingstock of Northeast Michigan. At least it would have proven itself so if there was anything funny about the school board’s dysfunction. The board’s June 11 meeting was nothing short of a smorgasbord ...