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Opinion

MSP offers tips to deal with dangerous cold

Editorial

A powerful arctic cold front is forecast to move across the region, ushering in frigid temperatures and high winds with dangerous wind chills The Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division is urging residents and visitors to take precautions now to stay ...

The American police state has arrived

Columns

In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history, it has sought to silence the speech it hates and fears. But most authoritarians did not have a Constitution that was written as an ...

Trump turns us into villains who will ultimately lose

Columns

A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid ...

A resolution to love

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Here is perhaps a more appropriate, non-divisive, non-violence inciting resolution for the Houghton County Board of Commissioners, and perhaps all government officials, agencies and bureaus to make: Whereas the natural, perhaps god-created, biological human reproduction ...

Does Trump need a portrait of James K. Polk?

Columns

Donald Trump has a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, but as he tries to browbeat Denmark into coughing up Greenland, maybe he should add a portrait of a Jackson acolyte — James K. Polk. If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are fewer better representatives ...