To the Journal editor: A big thanks to the Rotary Club for their support of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Christmas party and outing which was held at the UP North Lodge event center in January. The highlight of the afternoon was a sleigh ride through the woods and, of course, the delicious ...

To the Journal editor: Alarming and troubling are the words I use to describe what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently said when he invoked the name of "Jesus Christ" during his remarks at a Pentagon press conference on March 20 whose purpose was to pray for our troops and honor our fallen ...

Michigan has lost nearly 100,000 acres of farmland in one year. That’s about one acre every five minutes, according to MLive. Big farms are currently thriving while small and midsize farming operations are disappearing. But who is buying all this land? And what is it being used for? Questions ...

Here is a letter I sent U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, on March 9 through his Congressional portal. Congressman Bergman, The Trump administration’s multiple tariffs, threats to annex Greenland and Canada, attacks on Venezuela purportedly for drug trafficking, while pardoning a former ...

To the Journal editor: Where there's thunder, lightning will follow. Loud thunder can be indicative of how close it is. And the one Mississippi, two M... count is a sort of measure of how near lightning will strike. Thunderstorms and lightning can be exciting to hear and view from a ...

To the Journal editor: Nathan Hale supposedly said prior to being executed by the British in 1776, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” As a free thinking American citizen, I’m also — like Nathan Hale — willing to give my life in the fight against ...