LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Riding bottle rockets to prosperity; more bucks for the bang

That’s it — legalize burning things that fly through the air …

Should Bridge Card holders be banned from disguising them?

Last March I wrote a column about a guy in Macomb County who had created an Internet business selling stickers specifically intended to camouflage Bridge Cards.

 

Sloppy drunks?

Are rock music fans that  neat, or are football fans that messy?

Goodbye, Dolly’s

I pulled into the Instant Oil Change store on E. Kalamazoo Street recently, and I thought the guys there were going to kiss me. Road construction made getting into the place a daunting prospect.
A franchise like that will be able to survive a temporary lack of customers, but for businesses lacking deep pockets, the prospects are more precarious.

The word on bug zappers …

Scientists say they kill good bugs, but not mosquitoes.

But they didn’t specify which year …

Bill from Williamston wants to know if the rest stop on westbound I-96, near Okemos, will ever open again.

Not a dry eye in the place

One year and five days ago, I watched 9-year-old Sophie Ramont bring the house down by reading an essay she had written about her father, Shaye Ramont, who died Sunday —  on Father’s Day.

Engaged parents are the only hope for schools

I hate to break it to Gov. Rick Snyder, but the EAS (Education Achievement System) won’t fix failing schools. The only hope is PWC (Parents Who Care).

Those cotton-pickin’ cottonwoods

A white blanket covered Nancy Edmiston’s backyard in East Lansing — and it wasn’t snow.

A recipe for starvation

Here’s a bright idea for public food assistance, from Randy Hekman, who wants to replace Debbie Stabenow in the U.S. Senate:
Eliminate it.