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Opinion

Residents warned of increase in whooping cough

Editorial

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is calling attention to an increase in cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, and urging individuals to get up to date with vaccinations. Case numbers across the state surpassed last year’s reports and are coinciding with a ...

The voters wanted change; they’re going to get it

Columns

“It isn’t a hard choice,” we said. On one side was a candidate who would abide by the Constitution and laws of the United States and accept the outcome of elections. On the other was a candidate refusing to accept a 2024 defeat even as memories of his attempted coup in 2020 remain fresh; ...

Winter is just around corner; try to make best of it

Editorial

While fall weather seems to be hanging on this year, there is no denying that, to quote Game of Thrones, winter is coming. For many of us, that is unwelcome news but whether you like it or not, its coming. Take this as a reminder to give your snowblower a tune up and make sure its ready to go ...

Democracy lives in brightness

Columns

In the end, Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. President-elect Donald Trump won the greatest comeback in American political history — bigger than Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory — by surviving two assassination attempts, a media that was ...

What you didn’t hear on election night

Columns

Here are some observations on what you didn’t hear on election night. Most networks’ focus was, quite properly, on whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would carry enough of the 93 electoral votes of the seven target states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, ...

What if voting is fruitless?

Columns

What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted, the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if democracy as it has come to ...