There’s nothing quite like listening to Lake Superior’s waters lap up against the shoreline on an early summer morning. However, the gentle sounds of the big lake’s waves are just one small part of what it offers our region. It’s a treasure we value for providing fresh water, habitat, ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s confident navigation of his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his readiness for the job that has been his life’s ambition. In the several hours of that critical encounter in Geneva, Biden demonstrated the discipline and ...
A New Jersey school district has voted to eliminate “the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar ... opting for the more generic description ‘Day Off.’” You can guess the reason. They used those increasingly popular words — “inclusive” and ...
Speaking to the Munich Security Conference in February, President Joe Biden proclaimed that “America is back.” It’s a pleasing sentiment, but our allies as well as our adversaries can be forgiven for taking a wait-and-see attitude. America’s approach to the world has gyrated over the ...
To the Journal editor: Fathers Day. On this day, everyone pauses to reflect in some measure or other. I reflect on my own father, Earl William Tooman, born in 1910 in a primitive farm house on the Ohio prairie. A product of his time and culture, he did not always do fathering well. The ...
Michigan is one of just two states that don’t require elected officials to disclose how much money they earn or where it comes from. That omission makes it difficult to know when public servants are enriching their own families or business partners at taxpayers’ expense. It also explains ...