Recent content by milkman636

I’ve seen that too. The increased tax rate goes to fund the police/fire and then a chunk of the previous general fund allocation is reappropriated for other purposes that weren’t on the ballot. Local politicians are training for a bigger stage and need to get their practice.

His senior year has been a very expensive one. We’ve probably invested more time and money into positioning him where he wants to be than many of you would agree with. But, I legitimately feel like I’m gonna be saving money next year after looking over my wife’s spreadsheets of our expenses.

It’s been a long wait for the feds to process a fafsa. After 7 or 8 weeks of waiting they kicked back the first submission because my son inadvertently placed a comma in the wrong spot in our address. So it had to be fixed and resubmitted. The real costs for my son’s top four schools range...

10’ wide x 9’ high work well for my truck and 3500 van. 10’ wide is also the minimum to allow my boat and utility trailer to back in with some clearance, and there are times that I park them in the garage for different purposes.

My 2007 F150 was having faults on 5 different sensors and it turned out to be a wire issue within the main harness. Vibration, age, corrosion, heat, poor routing or something else affected common wiring those sensors shared. Ended up just sistering new wires along side the harness and...

My dad was not the one that any of us wanted to do the cooking. He was born into the depression and WW2 highlighted his early teens. Then Uncle Sam sent him overseas for a couple years of culinary desensitization during the Korean War. He could eat anything at room temperature out of a can or...

One of these will help develop the shoulders, back, core and forearms too. Splitting with one was my favorite part of growing up with wood heat.

I think I'd want a camera with a pretty powerful flash.....and capable of taking multiple pictures before requiring reload.

Seeing these photos in April brings back memories of 1996 for me. I was living near the south end of Lake Huron at that time and bought a new boat at a boat show. When I made the deal in February I scheduled pick-up for noon on Good Friday, which was April 8th, thinking that would be past the...

It's been 15+ years since I've been further west than Marquette or Escanaba in the UP, but that smelter site looks in better condition than I remember.

Wow, a lifetime license, that would be great. Michigan has a lot of enforcement on the waters of inland lakes in the southern lower peninsula and the popular trout and salmon streams. They’ll be very visible during spawns. I was even checked once last summer while fishing crappie with two of my...

This is sad commentary and hard to imagine. I would hope there would be some engagement and discussion. I know that i’d be pissed off if I went to a class to just watch something that I could have streamed at home.

That’s an interesting option and I’ll throw that one at him too. That job could be good in the popular fisheries and some of the better areas of the state. Certain areas of the state are a bit of a joke on DNR enforcement though. The area of the UP I’ve hunted for years will have only one CO...

My son and I found an interesting alternative to possible college debt. One of the careers he had interest in (besides the NFL, NBA, coaching, or marines) is law enforcement. While talking with the chief of police for a nearby city, he indicated they may be willing to fully sponsor my son...

I’ve noticed many government job postings that still have the “degree in any subject” line-item in the list of qualifications, at both state and federal level. I’ve always wondered why they don’t list “degree in a relevant subject”? Does that requirement really mean that a degree in musical...