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Opinion

Data center freak-out apparent

Columns

Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We must stop it!" says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Slow ...

Watch for Adopt-A-Highway groups doing roadside cleanup

Editorial

Groups of volunteers will be doing spring cleaning along Michigan’s highways in coming days, picking up the trash and other discarded materials. Beginning today, motorists should be on the lookout as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out across far northern Michigan for the first of three ...

China’s growing presence in Western Hemisphere is real threat to US

Columns

It is China's unprecedented presence in our Western Hemisphere, not Iran's "aspirations" for nuclear weapons, that is the much bigger threat to the United States. For starters we do not need to be waging a war or continuing a war to stop the "aspirations" of the Iranian people. It was made ...

The Comey indictment and free speech

Columns

In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, ...

The real reason Trump doesn’t want Congress to vote on war powers

Editorial

(A week ago) Thursday marked 60 days since the start of Trump's failed war in Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the power "To declare War," and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 — enacted over Nixon's veto — mandates that troops be withdrawn within 60 days ...