Kids or no kids, Christmas morning isn’t Christmas morning without a toy or two under the tree.
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Rachel Bogle is an engineering student who will graduate in December. She wrote to me to express her “utter disappointment” at the choice of the Dec. 10 commencement speaker — Roy Roberts, the Detroit Public Schools’ emergency financial manager.
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I had to tell reader Leanne Zapala that her story wasn’t really news. But that’s a good thing.
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In general, I dislike institutionalized “holiday” cards, especially ones that arrive before Thanksgiving. I must admit, however that the one I retrieved from my office mail box Monday — from Fenner Nature Center — gave me a chuckle.
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Poetry is not a word you would automatically associate with deer camp. And, yet …there is a poem, of sorts, that captures the ambience pretty well — much more so, anyway, than the farcical song, “Second Week of Deer Camp.”
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Once the legendary Penn State football coach uttered the words, “I wish I had done more,” there was only one way for him to go — away, as quickly as possible.
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Inspired by my columns about the speed limit on Grand River Avenue, Greg Forbis, retired from the Lansing Police Department after 26 years, offered this insight into human nature …
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A statement by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan on the so-called anti-bullying bill passed last week by the State Senate:
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In case you missed the boss’ column Sunday, anonymous brick-throwing — and for that matter, applause — on the LSJ website will end Nov. 30.
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