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Opinion

Lyme disease season just starting

Editorial

We trust Mining Journal readers on Monday took note of a front page story detailing that experts predict the upcoming warm season is going to be bad as far as Lyme disease is concerned. According to the state of Michigan, Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is ...

We lost one of the great grumps this week

Columns

In every school, work or personal gathering, you need at least one grump for the group to thrive. Grumps do the work that no one else will. When everyone else is being mercilessly upbeat, they swim against the tide and complain. The grump may follow your inane rules — but grudgingly, oh, ...

Voting Rights ruling will promote corrupt electoral maps

Columns

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a "great step forward" toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting. It was. But this week, in striking down a voter redistricting map in Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken ...

DNR notes crucial role of dispatchers

Editorial

Ever wonder who officers are talking to on those radios clipped to their chests? Or what happens when they go back to their vehicles, with your license and registration in hand, while you ponder whether you’re going to get a ticket? Conservation officers are communicating with emergency ...

The real king schools the would-be king

Columns

I've always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least a pinch of smug superiority. The Windsors are revered for nothing more than birth -- not talent, nor accomplishments, nor virtue. It's all a throwback to an earlier stage of human ...

The young, violent political left

Columns

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase ...