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Saildrone Voyager holds promise for Coast Guard, Great Lakes

Editorial

Mining Journal readers this week learned the future of maritime safety and security may look somewhat different on the Great Lakes and that could be very good news for the people who depend on these waters. The U.S. Coast Guard's testing of the Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vehicle represents a positive step toward a more modern, efficient and capable approach to protecting our nation's waterways. While the technology may seem futuristic, its potential benefits are very practical: better weather information, improved maritime surveillance, greater search-and-rescue capabilities and ...

JD Vance has no idea what 2028 voters actually want

Columns

I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that's a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...

Election reflections

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Some thoughts on the recent midterm elections: The obvious one is that of the widespread repudiation of Donald Trump and his enabling sycophants in the dwindling MAGA movement. The majority of Americans realized that the populist appeal of his incompetent, bigoted, vulgar, simple/symbol-minded "governing" has failed to support democracy as clearly outlined in the Constitution. The election results clearly show that the majority of our citizens value Diversity in our national demographics. The new Congress will be much more diverse in race, religious and ethnic ...

Guest opinion

Editorial

EDITOR'S NOTE: This opinion was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. Our state has been embroiled in a long list of political debates this election season. But one poll revealed something exciting about Michiganders: We agree on the value of afterschool. In an EPIC/MRA survey conducted in August of 600 likely voters across the political spectrum, 72% said access to affordable, quality afterschool and summer programs was extremely or very important. When respondents learned that five of every ...

More than a thumping, possibly a realignment

Columns

More than a "thumping." That's what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining six Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. In Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have ...

CO2 levels in atmosphere rising

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: For most of our Earth’s history, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have ranged between 180 and 280 parts per million. When CO2 levels where around 280 parts per million, the corresponding Earth temperature could sustain life. When CO2 levels where around 180 parts per million were times of ice ages. For the first time in the history of Earth, CO2 reached 300 ppm in 1950. Today CO2 levels have reached 425 PPM. A 42% increase in just 75 years! An unheard-of rate of change to a level our world has never experienced. Carbon dioxide in the Earth’s ...