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>For more than a decade, businesses small and large have been complaining they can't find qualified mechanics, electricians, sound engineers and assemblers who understand machine tolerances and can also program machine tools. I'm still hearing from my son, David, who runs a successful...

On Tuesday, Nov. 7, voters in the Cromwell-Wright School District will vote “yes” or “no” on a $5.08 million building referendum for school facility improvements. The proposal includes a new industrial arts addition, dedicated band and choir space, updated auditorium, gymnasium...

The admission money that was received went to different organizations like Dollars For Scholars, Boy Scouts, or class functions. Throughout the years we continued with charging 25 cents for admission and later changed it to 50 cents admission, which it currently is. As the years...

I can find no part of that sentence that's not still true. Americans still lack confidence in the electoral system.

Life-time bonding was another great result. The scholar-athlete mentality and the sound mind/healthy body dichotomy students develop help them grow up to become strong, respectful leaders in their communities. The Bad: Verbal disrespect should never have a place in educational ...

Extracurricular activities provide students a chance to learn many valuable life lessons such as teamwork, leadership and integrity. Many students spend several hours after school involved in extracurricular activities, which is why coaches play such an important role in their players'...

They ask some version of the same question: What can we do to pull ourselves out of this dark period? For Americans who respect representative democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law, there's reason to be concerned. But are we in a downward spiral as a nation?

>Remember President George W. Bush's proposal to privatize social security? Fortunately, the Democratic Congress would not budge. If they had, millions of seniors would have been bilked by the Wall Street derivative and mortgage scandal, their retirement incomes permanently downsized....

Yet for all that, the plant may never be built. "FoxConn has a relatively bad track record on following through," wrote Tim Culpan in Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2013, the company announced plans to build a $30 million plant in central Pennsylvania that never materialized. In 2014,...

I don't just mean going to a town hall meeting and yelling, or shooting off a letter or email. I mean making an appointment to sit down with your representative — in his or her office, at a cafe in the district, or wherever else you can meet — and holding a real con...

"She gave me my first car loan, on generous terms," one man recalled. "She taught me how to save," another said.