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Opinion

Don’t look now but tourists are here

Editorial

Freshwater seas, flowing rivers and waterfalls, natural wilderness and more are all right outside our front doors. We should consider ourselves lucky, seeing as we’re the ones who live where others choose to vacation. It’s that time of year again, when our grass is greener, the skies are ...

Musk should return to the Democratic Party

Columns

Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new "America Party" to primary those who voted for it. He doesn't need a new party. He has his old one, the Democrats. Many Democrats have grown to intensely dislike Musk, and they have their reasons. ...

Independence Day 2025

Columns

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United ...

E-bikes banned

Letters To The Editor

I am writing this letter today, June 22, because my husband and I just got back from a bike ride out to Presque Isle and I am both upset and angry. We love both walking and biking but both being in our 70s now we decided to buy class 2-E bikes last year. We did so because they have a throttle ...

Rising national debt is already troublesome

Editorial

The rise of the federal debt over the past two decades has prompted countless warnings that the United States is approaching a fiscal reckoning, a day when the government won’t be able to drink all it wants from the fountain of easy money. The more immediate danger is that the fountain ...