Todd VanSickle | Author
Tipping Point
Feb. 23, 2019
Thanks to credit cards and in-phone apps, customers today are carrying less cash than ever, yet it seems like the instances in which they’re expected — or being asked — to tip are increasing. Northern Express dips into the proliferation of countertop tip jars and scree…
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Feb. 16, 2019 In a town chock-full of fast food restaurants, tasty tacos can be hard to find. “People think Kalkaska doesn’t have tacos,” Glenn Hunter tells Northern Express. But come Taco Tuesday, the owner of the town’s Pick Kwik convenience store proves ’em all wrong. The…
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Feb. 2, 2019 Despite larger and louder movements against guns and gun violence, gun ownership in Michigan is on the rise, and with it, lots of new ranges and gunshops. Northern Express sends an amiable (and non-gun-owning) reporter to see what all the fuss is about. Jan. 5, 2019 I have never smoked a cigarette. Dec. 15, 2018 On a cold, snowy December morning at 6 a.m., National Weather Service meteorologist Sabrina Jauernic puts on her coat and gloves to walk about 200 yards to a building that resembles a small observatory. It houses several hydrogen tanks that are used to fill weather balloons twice a day that…
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Kalkaska Pick-Kwik's Pulled Pork Tacos
Locked & Loaded
Th…
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The Vape Debate
Not even one puff.
I think it was the smell that turned me off. At an early age, the stench was burned into my memory.
I can’t think of one family member who didn’t smoke cigarettes.
On the weekends, I …
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