I guess there’s a certain moment in every American’s life when he or she knows he or she is getting older. There comes a point in time when all the pretending in the world won’t keep you hip, or cool, or of the younger-generation. I know. I got these hipster cool glasses and even their […]
It may sound counter intuitive, but the decision to close two branches of the Clarkston State Bank is not because the company is feeling any financial pinch. Quite the opposite, if you ask bank president Grant Smith on why branches downtown and on Sashabaw Road are closing. ‘It’s a sign of the times,? Smith said […]
So, I ran across a ‘ranking? on-line this weekend. Nothing so funny as David Letterman’s Top 10, nor was it interesting in any shallow, ‘I want to be entertained? kind of way. Nope. This list had to do with a concept near and dear to my heart: freedom of the press, or should I say, […]
By Don Rush It may sound counter intuitive, but the decision to close two branches of the Clarkston State Bank is not because the company is feeling any financial pinch. Quite the opposite, if you ask bank president Grant Smith on why branches downtown and on Sashabaw Road are closing. ‘It’s a sign of the […]
Oh, sometime last week whilst working high atop the ivory tower at 5 South Main Street in Clarkston (actually I was looking down at all the little people trying to stay warm in single digit weather, and smiling smugly, sipping a hot coffee) I got a phone call that went something like this: Caller: ‘So, […]
So, it has come to pass in this brave new world of instant gratification, notification and articulation that when we see or hear something that may or may not be true, we instantly share our indignations. (Try saying that sentence with one breath!) We post it on our favorite social website either by hand held […]
It’s a wrap on 2014 Yep, it may be sad, but it’s true: 2014 is all but over, merely memories of the things we did and said. And, for my last column of this calendar year, I’m gonna’ go back and revisit said year’s Don’t Rush Me ‘gems.? (Or at least just the headlines that […]
I hope this column finds its way into your hands, and before your eyes before December 25, in the year of our Lord, 2014. I hope you have hands to hold the paper and eyes to read. It is my sincere hope that this holiday season (the one so many folks in the western world […]
Holy Mother of Local Buying Power, Batman! Did you know when you drive down the street and look at all your neighbors? homes, that nearly three of every four of the families inside make decisions on what goods and services they will purchased based on what they have seen in our papers? Yep, ’tis true. […]
I’ve written before about growing up in one of Clarkston’s ghettos ? and, back then it meant anywhere that wasn’t located in the square mile of Clarkston proper (basically anywhere in Independence Township). If you lived in the township, folks from the village would scrunch their faces at you if you said you lived in […]