Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems was dedicated to Robert Creeley who was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in1926. He entered Harvard in 1943 but left school to serve in the American Field Service in Burma and India dur...

Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has been thinking about the recent decision by The State Officers Compensation Commission to cut legislative pay by ten percent. Hear Audio Story    There is something to be said for a spirit of shared sacrifice during hard times...

Because the catering I do is for small special events, there's more room to stretch and experiment in the menus, which I like. Also, I get to be on hand when the meals are eaten and so get to observe the reactions to the food. It's hard to beat standing in the kitchen and listen to "oohs" and "ahs" ...

I'm still spending time with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  I have another film versi on to watch (hopefully this evening), which was pro duced by the BBC and Ti me-Life Films.  I'll be curious to s ee if it follows the play more  closely than
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If you listen to the network news (I don’t recommend it) you will hear that the economy has ground to a halt.  You will also hear about how all of the auto makers have seen their sales cut in half.  But did you hear about the automaker that saw sales increase 14% in January over the same period ...

I still think of Michigan’s constitution as our “new constitution.� I suppose this is because I was still in elementary school when it was written and adopted, and there was a lot of hoopla surrounding it. Teachers told us that we should be proud that our state finally had a progressive new co...

This week in The Tentacle for Wednesday March 4 2009 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The Great Man Theory of History Kevin E. Dayhoff Even before his election to the office of the president last November, many in the liberal chattering class were already using hype and hyperbole that then-Senator Barack Ob...

I am not a production worker. I'm not a good employee, after all. I've had jobs that required production work and I always managed for a while, but I could never last. Sometimes it was the noise, for production work always seems to have some sort of noisy equipment involved. The stress, of course, o...

In this December 2008 file photo, the guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) visits Naval Station Pearl Harbor on the return leg of its historic first deployment as a Trident guided-missile submarine. This will be the final stop before returning to its home port of Bangor, Wash. The submarine ...

    Howard Nemerov had all the talents of the bards, but they were disguised, for his poems can at first appear to the occasional reader to be as unprepossessing as ordinary conversation. His surfaces are casual, colloquial, often overtly witty, and it is possible to overlook the f...