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Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: The Kiwanis Club of Marquette proudly announces that this is the 29th year it has hosted the Marquette July 4th Parade that will start as before at 2 p.m. on July 4th at McClelland Avenue and West Washington Street. The 2024 parade is special as it celebrates the ...

Myth of Trump’s business genius has been busted

Columns

How embarrassing. Donald Trump’s well-known history of financial exaggeration appears to be catching up to him in a very inconvenient place, a courtroom. After years of his colorful boasts about his wealth and financial savvy, Trump’s own lawyers delivered the news to the judge that he ...

State grant will assist Ishpeming, PCF in community efforts

Editorial

The west end received some good economic news in recent days with the announcement that the city of Ishpeming has received a $300,000 state grant. The money, from Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s community center grants program, will be used to provide increased food- ...

Third party is coward’s way out

Columns

During the all-too-brief one-on-one contest between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, there was a good deal of analysis declaring it the last stand of the Reaganite vision for the GOP versus the MAGA takeover. That was the wishiest of wishful thinking — ...

Verify, research before sending money contributions

Editorial

Just when the number of scams seemed to be flattening somewhat, the FBI and IRS are out with warnings about illegal charity scams. And these scams are apparently using real events to hookwink unsuspecting victims. With the rise in international crises happening around the globe, many are ...

Joe Biden should be angry and anxious

Columns

Who knows if Joe Biden is as “angry and anxious” about his re-election prospects as a new NBC News report portrays him. It could be that it’s ordinary ill-temper from a politician prone to shouting in private (an Axios headline not too long ago dubbed Biden “old yeller”), or ...