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October 8, 2009 / Columns

Michigan Politics

Duck Duty, Dock Pay

By George Weeks

Fifty years ago, partisan stalemate on the budget by Lansing lawmakers resulted in payless paydays for state employees and a black eye for the state. The national press noted a mock "Michigan on the Rocks" cocktail. More...

Engadine-Gould City

By Julie Freeman 477-6959 • engadinenews@sbcglobal.net

Hello, everyone. It's just the second week of October and the weather report is for colder weather this weekend. I'm not looking forward to winter, but there’s no stopping it. More...

Looking Back

125 YEARS AGO St. Ignace News October 7, 1884 A light sprinkling of snow fell here on Sunday forenoon. ••• Mackinac Island is to have a new $50,000 hotel next season. Work will be commenced on it shortly. More...

DeTour

By Judy Jones 297-3231 • jj127@centurytel.net

Saturday, October 3, felt just enough like fall to make the 75 ladies attending the second annual EUP Fine Arts Council Fashion Show and Luncheon think about their fall and winter wardrobes, and what they will wear for those holiday parties. More...

Eng adine Co ns o lidated Schools

By Angie McArthur Superintendent

Next week, students in grades three through eight begin taking the Michigan Educational Assess - ment Program (MEAP) test. More...

DEAL ME IN

The Quicksand Known As Gambler's Fallacy

Mark Pilarski

Dear Mark: I know you don't believe in the doubling up theory after a loss in blackjack, but after I have seven or eight losses in a row, wouldn't betting more be warranted, if not just for the due factor? Jim K. More...

St. Ignace

By Miriam Blair 643-7994

Sweatshirt weather began last week. Frost was reported Thursday morning, October 1. More...

Rexton-Garnet

By Linda Livermore 595-7283

Fall flung open the door and blew in with a vengeance, with cold rain, trees bending down in a graceful bow, and temperatures dipping to “fire up the wood stove mode,” all during the first week of October. More...