Private meetings in Washington often speak more loudly than public speeches. The recent meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and influential outside adviser, is one of those moments. The two New Yorkers reportedly ...
The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter is planning a worthwhile fundraiser next month that we want to call your attention to. The 21st annual Strut Your Mutt event is set to take place at 10 a.m. Oct. 3 at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette. Without doubt, a great time will be had by all, especially the many furry friends that will be in attendance. Anytime UPAWS, or other animal welfare shelters, come up, adoption of pets is certain to be discussed. That’s what this writing is about. Bringing a pet into a family, any family, is a big deal. It should involve specific ...
To the Journal editor: The U.S. Forest Service recently announced plans to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, established in 2001, that has kept some of our public land free of roads and development. When the Roadless Rule was established, the Forest Service held hearings across the country and received 1.6 million comments supporting the rule. One of my favorite Roadless Areas in Michigan is the Norwich Plains in the Ottawa National Forest. I have hiked in this area to explore the Trap Hills and was impressed by the scenery and the wildflowers there. There are also areas ...
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning — when spending becomes ...
Don't look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It was coined by Stanley Cohen in the 1972 book "Folk Devils and Moral Panics." Moral panics emerge when large numbers of people start to freak out ...
When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities. Yet some of the same people who ...
