TODAY
IS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 - COMMUNITY COLLEGE TIMES
New college students can drown in a sea of choices
By Ellie Ashford
May 10, 2013–Students at Macomb Community College (Michigan) seek help at the enrollment services desk. “She gave me a list of general things that I can pick from. It was such a big list that I didn’t really know where to start.” “It’s like they get you in and out as fast as possible. They threw some papers at you, and then, like, 'Have a good one.'” “I have no idea what basic courses you have to take, your prerequisites. The [advisor] couldn’t tell me that ... Read
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DARKE COUNTY PARKS
Dan Gehret Excavating donates to DCPD Blacksmith Shop
Darke County Parks has begun the construction of the late 18th Century Blacksmithing Shop that will be located in the same area as the Log House on Shawnee Prairie Preserve. Materials, Labor and use of excavating equipment to begin the project have been accumulated on the site. Dan Gehret Excavating…Read
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GARST MUSEUM
Annie’s Garden Surprise
The Ladybug Garden Club and Spencer Landscaping helped Dave surprise Annie with a beautiful polished granite birdbath they placed in her garden. Annie loves the blue color and the vine leaf design of the zinc plated iron base. This great donation will be one of the many auction items at Annie’s Wild West Gala. You can view most of the auction items by going to www.garstmuseum.org and clicking on the Gala…Read
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DARKE COUNTY PARKS
PEPCON Concrete donates to Darke County Park District Blacksmith Shop
Recently Pepcon Concrete of Bradford, Ohio donated almost 14 yards of concrete to the Darke County Parks Blacksmith Shop project. The concrete was used for the foundation/footer of the Blacksmith Shop that is being built by Volunteers of the Park District. “Once... Read
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MIKE DEWINE
DeWine Announces Clinic, Pharmacy Raids Authorities Remind Citizens to Report Suspected Prescription Drug Abuse at 855-BCI-OHIO
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that multiple federal search warrants were served this morning in connection with an ongoing prescription drug abuse investigation in central Ohio. Authorities with...Read
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PEWSTATES
Oklahoma’s “Life-Preserving” Law Raises Questions for Doctors
By Michael Ollove
TULSA, Okla. – University of Tulsa law professor Marguerite Chapman has been studying end-of-life issues in Oklahoma for three decades and has come to a conclusion: “It’s getting almost to the point that you need a government permit in order to die in this state.” Certainly, dying has gotten...Read
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TOWNHALL
Paranoid or Prescient?
By Victor Davis Hanson
May 23, 2013–Government is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founders. Is that perennial fear an exaggeration? Survey the current news. We have just learned that the Internal Revenue Service before the 2012 election predicated its tax-exempt policies on politics. It inordinately denied tax exemption to groups... Read
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FROM
THE EDITOR... ON THE INSIDE - SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013
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