Week in Review
Baw Beese Crime Update from HDN
The Hillsdale Daily News’s embittered journalist, Corey Murray, engaged in apologetics for the city police force in a recent report about the crime/strange loitering that infests Baw Beese park. According to Police Chief Scott Hephner, the area is well-patrolled and there is no evidence of narcotics dealings. (Part of the difficulty with the area is that many of the homes are actually outside of city limits, whereas the park itself is within.) Murray also noted that additional lighting would soon be installed “in order to deter the situation.”
Upcoming Events
Monday, August 21, 7:00 PM: City Council meeting. See the agenda here.
The council will listen to the “SAD 2024-08” (Special Assessment District) public hearing for the repaving of the St. Joe/Griswold neighborhood’s streets. Some residents of the neighborhood submitted a letter asking for the City Council to have mercy.
The city police will be getting $25,730 worth of body cameras if the City Council approves the Public Safety Committee’s recommendation.
The City Council will determine whether or not dogs should continue to be permitted to poop in cemeteries.1
Tuesday, August 22, 9:00 AM: County Commissioners meeting.
External Links
“Less than one month after I requested the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to cut ties with the American Library Association, I am excited to report that they just informed me they will not renew their contract with them!” Statement from Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison. A similar movement has been successful in Montana and is now afoot in Wyoming.
“The Michigan Civil Rights Commission is again seeking an opinion from Attorney General Dana Nessel on whether banning LGBT books from libraries constitutes a form of discrimination after Nessel declined to taking up an initial request filed in May.” via MLive.
“Yes, voters in America’s small towns favored President Donald Trump in 2020, but they gave Trump roughly 61 percent of their votes, compared with voters in the most rural areas who backed him with 73 percent.” The Washington Post advises Democrats to make small towns more diverse dense in order to better demoralize rural Americans.
“Michigan’s GOP infighting is an extreme example of the dysfunction in many states as the chamber-of-commerce Republicans who used to define the party give way to populists who are deeply skeptical of elites and institutions of power.” Another day, another fact-laden article about Michigan GOP problems that doesn’t quote Penny Swan. Are they even paying attention?
“A lack of coordination from the City to date has impeded the State’s ability to foster productive relationships and discussions, including with the counties and localities that have offered to help. In particular, the City chose to send migrants to counties and localities outside of the City with-little-or-no notice to or coordination with the State or those counties and localities.” Democrats in Albany are at war with Democrats in New York City over the arrival of illegal aliens in that most progressive of metropolitan areas.
“Donald Trump is a scourge on democracy across the world. Frankly, Canada better have a plan for a decline in American democracy.” Canadian politicians who were eager to suspend the bank accounts of protesting truckers in 2022 are preparing to defend their country against an “authoritarian turn” in the United States if the 2024 election isn’t sufficiently fortified.
“The homeschool movement is one of the two most important phenomena in education in the last century, along with the ascent of progressive education in the 1920s and 30s. While the latter hammered the final nail into the coffin of public education as the culturally-informed pursuit of excellence, the former represents a guerilla movement aimed at the entire progressive ascendency.” Excerpt from an analysis and evaluation of “rightist” education options under our managerial regime, composed by a certain Librarian of Celaeno.
“In at least some regard, we are cosmopolitan people, you and I. You may not like to hear it, but you cannot ever uncomplicatedly embrace the life of a rustic provincial, because part of being a rustic provincial issues from ignorance. It is a beautiful ignorance; the ignorance of the peasant who has never been a wayfaring man — but this beautiful thing is not mine, it is not yours, and it will never be ours, for we — are travelers.” The Adirondacker has taken up blogging again.
“Ellmers errs in largely subordinating religion to his discussions of citizenship in ‘the holy city.’ Perhaps for this reason, he neglects some of the most interesting features of Coulanges’s Ancient City, namely, what distinguished Rome from the Greek cities, and how the eclipse of the ancient city prepared for the advent of Christianity. Still . . . ” At First Things, Wyoming Catholic professor Pavlos Papadopoulos reviews Glenn Ellmers’ The Narrow Passage.
Farewell
I don’t want no dog ketchin' frisbees as I'm rolling in my grave. I don't want no hound diggin' up my worms.
We leave you with this lyric from the next Oliver Anthony-esque viral sensation, soon to be heard during an open mic night at Rough Draft or Ramshackle.
Hillsdale unfortunately is not immune to fur-baby culture, and has a large number of residents who are committed to having as many bloated, half-wild dogs as possible—more than they can even handle, more than they have room for. These dogs bark constantly, routinely escape, and are not trained in the slightest. Was Buffon right?