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Which one sounds like us?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Everybody up here knows the drill. You come over a rise in a whiteout and there’s a car nose-down in the ditch. You stop. You pull them out, or you sit with them until somebody with a chain shows up. Nobody asks where they’re from. Nobody sends a bill. Next time it’s your car. They do the same thing at the Soo, across an international border. Sault Ste. Marie has been one town with a line through it since 1817. The two cities keep a fire mutual-aid agreement, renegotiated in 2023. Between 1998 and 2022, firefighters from the Canadian side crossed the bridge ...

Tips on safely navigating traffic to and from school

Editorial

With Labor Day behind us and the new school year in full swing, it's time for a primer on how drivers and students should adjust to the heavier traffic of classes being back in session, AAA advises. "School commutes are now more complex than ever," Adrienne Woodland, spokeswoman for AAA - The Auto Club Group, said in a news release. "Drivers aren't just watching for students on foot and children getting on or off school buses. They're also sharing the road with e-bike and e-scooter riders. When you combine that with distracted driving and speeding, the consequences can be ...

'Trumpapalooza' a sad, unnecessary spectacle that achieves nothing

Columns

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...

When war comes home: A constitutional warning

Columns

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of ...

Still early but flu shots shouldn't be forgotten

Editorial

We know it's still early but we want to remind readers that experts say staying up to date on all vaccinations including the annual flu vaccine continues to be important. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick with flu, a potentially serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Every flu season is different and flu can affect people differently, but during typical flu seasons, millions of people get flu, hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized and thousands to tens of ...

What do you want from government?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: “Project 2020” was often criticized by progressives as a blueprint for expanding executive power and reshaping federal institutions. Yet there is a striking inconsistency in that criticism: many of the same voices which denounced the document’s existence seem unwilling to acknowledge the absence of a comparably comprehensive, publicly debated governing blueprint from the modern left. If one side is condemned for explaining what it would do with power, why is the other side not held to the same standard? At its core, Project 2020 presented ideas associated ...