Every winter, it seems, a number of people fall through ice they thought was safe. That's what happened recently in Marquette's Lower Harbor when someone fell through ice while reportedly skating. Many experienced ice fisherman know that as a practical matter, “safe ice” is an oxymoron, or ...
John Voelker’s Hornstein’s Boy sets forth this epigram: “In a democracy those most gifted to govern are all too frequently those least gifted in the dark arts of ever getting to govern.” It’s clear, Judge Voelker aka Robert Traver would be amazed and delighted to join in the 2026 ...
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...
Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory — how the Constitution is supposed to work, as ...
The people who labor to keep the roadways clear of snow and ice have a request for the public — please keep your distance, for their sake and yours. With 13 separate incidents involving vehicles striking county snowplows in Wisconsin so far this winter, that state’s Department of ...
By MONA CHAREN Syndicated columnist As we survey the wreckage of Trump’s second term, it is often said that HALF THE COUNTRY voted for this, or worse, HALF THE COUNTRY is fine with this. That isn’t true. MAGA is a bit of a moving target, but a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that ...