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Opinion

Adopt-A-Highway fall cleanup to begin Saturday, last of 2025

Editorial

Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will take to the roadsides again starting Saturday through Sept. 28 for the third and final scheduled litter collection of 2025. Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation program designed to help keep the state’s highway roadsides clean and ...

Two-party system obsolete?

Letters To The Editor

Those who say the two-party system is simply obsolete are ignoring the facts that we need a healthy government and opposition. The two-party system provides the pillars of ‘government’ and ‘opposition.’ Similarly, just as there are three branches of government that each check each ...

Charlie Kirk: Converter

Columns

Charlie Kirk has been called many things, including an influencer, especially of young people. A better label might be "converter." The power to speak truth in a way that changes a political mindset is better than influencer. Kirk possessed that power which led to his murder by a 22-year-old ...

App launched to help youth quit tobacco, vapes

Editorial

Youth in Michigan now have a new way to access free help to quit using tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes and vapes. The My Life, My Quit program has launched a mobile app, making it easy for teens to get confidential support from their smartphones, according to the ...

Where are the town halls?

Letters To The Editor

Dear the Journal editor: (It's) very interesting that U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, will be at Belgiumtown in Stephenson on Sept. 27 for a fundraiser. Bergman has visited the Upper Peninsula on numerous occasions in the past months for fundraising and meet-and-greets. How many town ...

Is another era of political violence upon us?

Editorial

In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation's partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in horrific ...