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Opinion

MSP warns it’s the season for holiday scams

Editorial

The holidays are a time of giving and joy, but they can also be a time when scammers try to take advantage of others, the Michigan State Police warns. Scammers can target all age groups, but older adults are often at higher risk. With that in mind, the MSP Eighth District, which covers the ...

Solutions for homelessness are there

Letters To The Editor

To the Editor: The last several weeks have brought the issue of homelessness into painful focus in the Marquette area: 1) Room at the Inn, the homeless shelter on Washington Street in Marquette, continues to operate over capacity and right now needs overflow emergency housing to keep ...

Summers not the biggest reveal from the Epstein emails

Columns

If you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, who exchanged scores of ...

Never, ever, forget Pearl Harbor Day

Editorial

Sunday marks the 84th anniversary of what is arguably the 20th century’s single-most most significant event, at least as far as the United States is concerned. for it was 84 years ago that morning that more than 350 carrier-based warplanes of the Empire of Japan paid an unannounced visit to ...

Disparate impact

Columns

Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million. Merrill Lynch paid $20 million. Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away. "This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!" complains Heather Mac Donald, author of ...

Murder for Christmas?

Editorial

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child's cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it "For your Christmas wish list," it understandably caused an uproar. Should the ...