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Opinion

Tips on food safety for the Thanksgiving feast

Editorial

With family and friends gathering Thursday for Thanksgiving, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development encourages Michiganders to keep food safety top of mind during the holiday week. Simple steps to ensure a successful holiday feast free of food borne illnesses ...

‘I was only following orders’

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: That statement was heard multiple times from Nazis during the Nuremburg trials after World War II as a defense to allegations that Nazi soldiers had committed war crimes. On Nov. 20, a half dozen veterans publicly reminded active duty military personnel that the U.S. ...

A Thanksgiving turkey to forget

Columns

I'll start by making a few things clear: I love my father, I love cooking and I love Thanksgiving. And now that the throat-clearing is done, I can move on to the complaining. Because of all dishes in all the holidays on the calendar, there's nothing like the Thanksgiving turkey for ...

2025 Cheer Club is now underway

Editorial

As many local residents have noticed, The Mining Journal has launched the 2025 Christmas Cheer Club one week early this year, due to the government shutdow and issues with SNAP benefits, to name just two stressors. In years past, the Cheer Club's traditional launch date was Black Friday, the ...

Enforcing immigration laws not moral equivalent of Holocaust

Columns

Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of ...

Freedom from pain

Columns

Reflecting on gratitude for this holiday, I want to highlight something that can be shared with the wider world. Last year at this time, I focused on reasons to be thankful despite Donald Trump's reelection: Trump ran on promises he cannot possibly fulfill. He swore to reduce prices and raise ...