Remembering my favorite teacher, Mr. Cooper, and lessons for a lifetime
We all have an all-time favorite teacher. Mine was Lynn G. Cooper – Mr. Cooper – and I was devastated and heartbroken to hear the news this week that he had passed away at the age of 78. Mr. Cooper was...
View ArticleThis is the most fascinating school board election in Livingston County...
For a variety of reasons, we are in the midst of the most fascinating school board election in Livingston County history. Back in the good old days, a couple decades ago or so, school board elections...
View ArticleLongtime Press & Argus photographer Gillis Benedict laid off; it’s the final...
Livingston County’s longtime local “newspaper” has been on life support for years now, but it officially died today. They might still print a few editions in the coming months or even years, but we can...
View ArticleDear Mike Rogers: Please run for U.S. Senate in 2024
There was a political earthquake in Michigan last week when U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) told the world that she would not be running for re-election next year. The announcement was totally...
View ArticleIt sure looks like Mike Rogers is running for U.S. Senate
To hear Mike Rogers tell it, he’s either running for president in 2024 or working to boost his new “Leadership to Ensure the American Dream” initiative. But it sure looks for all the world like he’s...
View ArticleBuddy has a new book: “A Taco Bell for Howell, and Other Livingston County...
The first time my byline ever appeared in the Livingston County Press was 40 years ago – on March 23, 1983, to be specific. I was the newly hired sports editor of the LCP and my first story was about a...
View ArticleWATCH: This strange 1939 Hollywood movie was filmed in Pinckney
We’ve uncovered a historic gem – a very strange 1939 Hollywood movie that was filmed in downtown Pinckney. And you can see a clip from it below. The film was called “The Scarecrow Takes Up Magic,” and...
View ArticleNow that we have a Panda Express, here are five more things Howell needs
I don’t like to brag – OK, that’s a lie; I love to brag – but as you all know, I’m the one who is personally responsible for bringing a Taco Bell to Howell in the early 1990s. I even wrote a book about...
View ArticleSlotkin v. Rogers is the best political match-up Michigan has ever seen....
So it’s official now. Mike Rogers — the Livingston County boy who became an Army veteran, FBI agent, state Senator and Congressman — is running for the U.S. Senate. It was the most anticlimactic...
View ArticleBrighton has decided that the Ugly Naked Guy is now a Korean War memorial. No...
Ugly Naked Guy, I can’t quit you. You’re the gift that keeps on giving. Since he first arrived on the banks of the Mill Pond in 2006, I’ve been writing about the Ugly Naked Guy – first as an editor and...
View ArticleBook excerpt: The differences between Brighton and Howell
If you’re looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that Livingston County person on your list, a paperback copy of “A Taco Bell for Howell and Other Livingston County Crusades” is a spectacular...
View ArticleHowell City Council wasting the governor’s time in a way you won’t believe
n terms of ridiculous and petty things that an elected body in Livingston County has ever done, the Howell City Council just jumped to the front of the line. And that’s saying a lot. What they did this...
View ArticleRemembering a Livingston County original, my friend Carl Welser
Livingston County lost an original this week when the Rev. Carl Welser passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 87. And I lost a great friend. Carl was a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg Township for many...
View ArticleJudge Hatty was one of our best; now we get another Democratic judge
On my list of all-time favorite Livingston County judges, Mike Hatty is right at the top. He’s fair, smart, funny, relatable and has never seemed to suffer from the Black Robe Disease that infected so...
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