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Opinion

Scammers never run out of ideas

Editorial

Scammers, it seems to us, never run short of schemes to part people from their money. The police agency involved in one of the latest is the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. According to the agency, the scammer will inform the target that their name was used to rent a vehicle which was stopped ...

Bad idea, bad policy

Letters To The Editor

State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, who represents the 110th District, recently introduced House Resolution 151 urging the federal government to purchase the former Ojibway Correctional Facility in Gogebic County. Markkanen suggests the federal government could turn the facility into a ...

RFK Jr. won’t make us healthier but can make us sicker

Columns

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, a ...

Drivers must be extra cautious with local schools starting

Editorial

Local schools are going to be starting soon and we urge drivers on local roadways to exercise additional caution and care when motoring. That's because, of course, children by the score are going to be out and about and in places they haven't been during the summer months. It can be a recipe ...

Will Trump help Ukraine stop Russia’s westward drive?

Columns

The extraordinary pair of meetings in the past week — the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday and Donald Trump's hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the NATO alliance and the European Commission — were prompted by the latest ...

Witnessing hypocrisy

Letters To The Editor

I just finished reading Clarence Page's (column) in The Mining Journal on Aug. 19 (Tuesday). In it, he tells of a man that was arrested in Washington, D.C. because he "forcefully threw" a wrapped hoagie at a Customs and Border Protection officer. He was arrested and charged with "assaulting, ...