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Opinion

Resource fairs vital for area senior citizens

Editorial

A series of resource fairs for area residents 60 and older are planned for later this month. The events will feature health exams, resources and other health and wellness focused services. The Marquette Senior Center’s fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23. The ...

Nurse Harris ratcheted it up on Trump

Columns

As we tuned into the big debate, the Trump camp was peddling the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s dogs and cats. When the debate turned to the subject of immigration, Donald Trump jumped on that hallucination without prompt. “In Springfield, ...

9-11 must be viewed as defining date in nation’s history

Editorial

Even 23 years later, the scar still remains. On Wednesday, the U.S. mourned the lives taken and those reshaped by 9/11 — the date when hijacked plane attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001. Cathy Naughton came to honor her cousin Michael Roberts, one of hundreds of firefighters ...

This is the problem with Liz Cheney’s Harris endorsement

Columns

Of all the living Republicans who have run on a presidential ticket, only two are publicly backing Donald Trump: Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, and JD Vance, Trump’s current running mate. Everyone else is going a different way. Trump’s two-time running mate and vice ...

State initiative seeks to get more young people voting

Editorial

We like an effort launched recently by the state of Michigan aimed at getting more younger voters signed up. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist proclaimed the week of Sept. 8 as Voter Pre-registration Week, encouraging eligible Michiganders to pre-register to ...

No party has monopoly on patriotism

Columns

If you don’t tell a lie, my father used to say, you won’t have to worry about which version of your story you told last. Right, I agreed, but, with an attitude like that, ol’ Dad was well advised to avoid going into politics. That advice came to mind amid the unfolding saga of an ...