( Mass of Reparation chuckle )

A local school has decided to make band class mandatory for fifth through 12th graders. I feel this is a bad idea ( Read more... )

We got a "news tip" today by which I mean there's an event that we were notified of that has card games, music, auction, and just all kinds of things that you'd expect at a "Michigan Farmer's Hall of Fame Weekend Show ( Read more... )

The city police are going to hold a series of workshops teaching people how to recognize signs of meth labs so that the police can use tips to try and crack down on the meth problem that's taken root in the area ( Read more... )

I should apologize that I regularly use this space to vent my opinions about the things that come on my computer screen as part of my work. It seems to me that it wouldn't be professional to put my two cents in the comments of the articles, since I need to keep a good representation of the paper and since we have paranoid people who think the ( Read more... )

Oh dear lord these opinion letters. A person writes in that "Democratic voters have always needed to turn a blind eye to the contradictory behavior of their leaders. Barack Obama, for example. Whatever he does, he claims he's doing the exact opposite ( Read more... )

We ran an article about the "tea parties" that have been going on. People protesting the bailout spending, and it's certainly within their rights to do so.

I just wish I'd stop hearing about children carrying protest signs.

At a local "tea party" there was a kid in a stroller trying to hold up a sign that said "STOP Subsidizing STUPIDITY." Now ( Read more... )

The paper I work at is owned by Gannett, which is a pretty huge company, really.

We ran an article today about several small Michigan Gannett papers closing or merging. I made the mistake of reading the comments made to this article.

One comment, to give you the tone of all of them: Gannett will be closing quite a number of newspapers this year ( Read more... )

I "took one for the team" this week, when a superior asked me to change my days off so that I'd be at work on Friday to cover for her work. This not only let me take a three-day weekend with which to visit my grandparents, but it also let me concentrate one of my work days this week on a fun duty I don't get to do as often as I'd like: page ( Read more... )

The mind behind the D&D parody comic "Nodwick" has recently noted that he has no sympathy for the apparent plight of political comics as the newspaper medium goes through what is widely considered its death throes. He points out that it is a comic genre that relies on explaining the joke to the reader, where in any other medium the joke would be ( Read more... )