Over the past few weeks, I have tried to challenge readers about their roles in the community and this newspapers role in their lives. So, now it’s time to start letting you know what your neighbors are saying. More soon. * * * Don, It’s a critically interesting question you posed in your column, about […]
So what do you do after years of working in the stodgy, collared shirt and necktie world of high stakes corporate marketing? Globe-trot? Start your own consulting business? Drive around in a Jeep? Enjoy your family? Play harmonica and keyboards in a band? If you are Orion Township resident Allan Nahajewski, 56, the answer is […]
Last week I spouted off: Let’s Get Rid Of All Newspapers, my headline screamed. It is an interesting world we live in, and sometimes this small-town (some would say small-minded) newspaperman has to step back and take a breath from all the running I need to do just keep from eating dust. ‘Eating dust,? you […]
I was watching the TV news magazine 60 Minutes this past Sunday. One of the topics was Mark Twain’s classic American works of literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While it has long been a source of controversy since it was published in the mid 1880s (‘course? language including the use of the dreaded ‘N? […]
In the left pocket of all my dress shirts, I carry an Amazing Spider-Man spiral note-pad. Ever the student of Stan Lee and just like Peter Parker, I try to always be prepared for when my ‘Spidey? senses start to tingle. No, that does not mean I have indigestion. And, I do not don tight, […]
It may seem abrupt or too good to be true, but the start of ‘summertime? will be here this weekend. It seems a rather stark contrast to this week’s forecast, issued by the National Weather folks out in White Lake. Here’s what I see leading up to springing forward into Daylight Savings Time, Sunday at […]
This column was from early in the year of our Lord, 2003. I’ve been going back and looking at past columns to put ’em in book form, and this one made me smile. Hope it makes you smile, too. — Don Since I was a young collegiate student-type of individual, the debate has raged in […]
Just a heads up . . . in case you hadn’t noticed, it snowed. * * * So, did anybody else think there are other reasons why the Tampa, FL kid isn’t doing good in school, other than his own academic proficiency? If you haven’t heard, a Florida couple had their son walk around in […]
Sometimes life is funny. Just aLake Orion resident Dave Hicks. Whilst in Oxford Elementary School, he became a fan of singer Elvis Presely. Soon he was impersonating ‘the king of rock and roll? at school functions. Then he grew up. He worked as a short-order cook at local diners, was a disc jockey, recording industry […]
Little did I know what a hornets nest I would shake, when last election cycle I commented on the incorrect usage of the term Michigander by the then two gubernatorial hopefuls, Virg ‘The Angry? Bernero, and Rick ‘The Nerd? Synder. You woulda thunk I kicked my neighbor’s dog, laughed and then wrote about it, by […]