LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Self-serve is fine, but give us the tools we need

As you pull into a gas station these days with a car full of salt-encrusted windows, what are the odds you’ll find a working squeegee and windshield washer in a liquid form?
I’d say 50-50, and sinking fast.

So much to geek … so few billboards!

As a library promotion (www.geekthelibrary.org), the folks at the East Lansing branch want to put my mug on a local billboard, but only if I’m willing to declare what I “geek” (feel passionate about).

What happened to Snyder, the teller of hard truths?

Tell me this: If Gov. Rick Snyder is supposed to be the man to give us the spoonful of brutal honesty we truly need, why is he reluctant to call  his proposed tax on pensions a tax increase?

What’s good for some Michiganders should be good for legislators, too

The way Sen. Rick Jones  tells it, his latest brainstorm for shared sacrifice came during Gov. Rick Snyder’s recent budget presentation.

Diminished snow-clearing apparatus equals less education

Why, you might ask, were all the local schools closed on such a sunshiny Tuesday — after a four-day “mid-winter break” for some students and teachers —  when the snow pretty much quit falling Monday morning?

Fighting air pollution — one perfume overdoer at a time

Reader Connie Peters may have a point, but do you think maybe she uses a little too much force?

A whole new demographic

Every month Direct TV invites Zenith Pollok to become a customer.
Pollok  has been dead for a year.

Weather folks didn’t see this one coming

As I recall, the weather forecasters were scaling back the snow totals expected Sunday — from  3-5 inches, down to 2-4 inches by Saturday night.

It's the state's fault she's a Bridge Card violator

In an anonymous letter I got Friday, a reader boasted that his/her daughter was  a “Bridge Card violator” — with a cause.

Casinos keep ‘em rolling in

Contemplating a weekend field trip to FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek — a junket spearheaded by the mater familias — I phoned the casino to see if they had wheelchairs available.
Silly question.