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Warning about dangers of driving while drowsy

Editorial

As daylight hours dwindle and the winter season approaches, drivers can find themselves battling fatigue and drowsiness while behind the wheel of a vehicle. This puts not just the driver in danger but those around them in the vehicle and sharing the road, according to Emplify Health by Bellin. This is national Drowsy Driving Prevention Week, when experts warn that operating a motor vehicle under such conditions can have dangerous, even deadly, consequences. Dr. Brad Burmeister, an emergency physician at Emplify Health by Bellin, said in a news release that drowsy driving poses a ...

New fourth branch of government?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: For centuries, the concept of equality and due process had been slowly emerging within the world’s oppressed peoples, yet it took bold action by our Founders to make freedom and equality a reality, thus American democracy was born. They proceeded to create a Constitution, not carved in stone but one malleable for future generations to refine, since none of them believed they created the end-all-be-all constitutional structure. Yes, our Constitution is extremely difficult to modify for good reasons, but when underlining flaws are hacked to abuse power, it’s ...

Moral reckoning for Donald Trump

Columns

There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South ...

Memo to Dems: Turn political page

Editorial

It's going to take some time for the dust to settle on the shellacking the Republican Party took from the Democrats in Tuesday's general election. As of this writing, the Democrats flipped enough seats in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to seize control of each chamber and the toll, from the GOP perspective, might get even worse in the coming days. This was a thorough repudiation of President Trump and his policies, from higher prices to the war with Iran to threatening our allies to Trump's chummy relationships with dictators. The list goes on and on. Democrats, ...

Reader opposes cartoon

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: As a longtime customer of your paper, I was shocked and angered by the racist, incendiary and utterly false editorial cartoon of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday's Mining Journal. Such behavior should be beneath any publication that purports to provide accurate news and information to the public. It certainly is not what I expect of my hometown paper — ever.

Guest editorial

Editorial

EDITOR'S NOTE: This opinion was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. On Saturday, Oct. 24, I had my first opportunity to serve my community as an election inspector, one of the people who staff your local polling place. I spent the day at my Ingham County community's early voting site, and the experience moved me to write this essay. What struck me most is that if voters were familiar with the people, procedures and processes behind our elections, the skepticism we see in surveys would shrink ...