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Old debt carries over into new year

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” - Herbert Hoover “Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.” - Benjamin Franklin Eighteen Republican senators voted for the monstrosity known as the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill, thus forever ...

COVID only sped up Blue State exodus

Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions come from the annual Christmastime release of the Census Bureau’s estimates of the population of the 50 states and the District ...

State needs to pay its bills

State needs to pay its bills The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has sued the Legislature, demanding that lawmakers appropriate $3.1 million to help the commission contest lawsuits the commission faces after it redrew legislative districts for this yearís elections, ...

UM’s Smith should have faced discipline

If the University of Michigan wins the national collegiate football championship, perhaps it should appear in the NCAA record books with a footnote. The Wolverines, 12-0 on the season and set to face Texas Christian University in the title semi-final on New Yearís Eve, won the last eight of ...

Christie’s Chronicles: These are a few of my favorite things

I don’t care how much you feel at home in an area or how long you’ve lived there. Some spots will hold more of an attraction than others. Take me, for instance. I love a lot of places in Marquette County and other regions in the Upper Peninsula, but Chocolay Township holds a special place ...

Trump supplants Nixon as saddest figure in post-presidential politics

“The tapes are the real man -- mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down,” Gary Wills wrote of Richard Nixon in the 2017 preface to his book, “Nixon Agonistes.” Wills added, perhaps ...