For quite a while during this election season, when someone would ask me why I’d ever vote for Donald Trump, I wallowed into a conversation that always ended with me asking “Why do you focus on the minor things that the media always emphasizes, such as mean tweets and hyperbolic ...

It’s time for another dispatch from the frontlines of my war with tonsil cancer. I’ve learned that a guy can learn a lot of things when dealing with such a stubborn enemy. For instance, when both your oncologist and your radiologist utter the phrase, “This is going to be rough,” you ...

I have had the privilege of working as a morning and afternoon crossing guard for Marshall Public Schools. A few years ago my assignment was the four-way stop at the intersection of Saratoga and Southview Drive. This is normally a very busy intersection during the morning and afternoon when ...

We live on the edge of Congressional District 7. My congressperson is Michelle Fischbach. She really wants me to know she’ll “secure the border.” This summer, “The Krzmarzick Household” received four 8-by-11 mailings telling me that. With grainy photos of dark-skinned people and ...

The past few weeks have been exciting in our buildings as new teachers were here Aug 20-22 for a formal introduction to Marshall Public Schools and the next week all staff attended our annual Workshop Week training and activities. Our District-Wide training this year was “One District, Many ...

It’s been 30 years since personal computers burst on the scene, and it’s meant major changes in our daily lives. I remember back before it was called the Internet. At first it was the Information Superhighway, a name that pointed to the seemingly unlimited potential to have information at ...