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Opinion

Celebrate National Ag Day by buying local products

Editorial

Today is National Ag Day with this year’s theme being “Together We Grow.” ... I encourage all Wisconsinites to take time to thank their local producers for the hard work they do every single day to feed, clothe and power the State of Wisconsin and beyond. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has ...

Farmland at issue

Letters To The Editor

Michigan has lost nearly 100,000 acres of farmland in one year. That’s about one acre every five minutes, according to MLive. Big farms are currently thriving while small and midsize farming operations are disappearing. But who is buying all this land? And what is it being used for? Questions ...

This is no longer dysfunction, it is danger

Columns

When a Transportation Security Administration official warns that airports could "quite literally shut down," we are no longer talking about inconvenience, delays or political theater. We are talking about vulnerability in one of the most sensitive and critical systems in our country. Aviation ...

Blizzard was one for the books

Editorial

The blizzard of 2026 is in the books, so to speak, although we’re told informally that plowing and shoveling leftover snow from last week’s historic dump continues in scattered locations. And what a blizzard it was. Much of the Upper Peninsula was impacted with the central U.P. and some ...

Iranian goals questioned

Letters To The Editor

Here is a letter I sent U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, on March 9 through his Congressional portal. Congressman Bergman, The Trump administration’s multiple tariffs, threats to annex Greenland and Canada, attacks on Venezuela purportedly for drug trafficking, while pardoning a former ...

Trump’s war psychology

Columns

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and mindset from the old ways we ...