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Time is running out on road revenue reform

Last December, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan urged the state to eliminate the sales tax on motor fuel. “With a large COVID-induced revenue windfall at its disposal, now is the perfect time for state policymakers to implement an often-discussed tax reform to generate more revenue ...

Protecting our children should be Job 1

A society’s first responsibility is to protect its children. We aren’t doing a very good job at fulfilling that basic obligation to the next generation. A damning new report from Virginia Commonwealth University finds the pandemic years have devastated America’s children. Mortality ...

Considering the pros and cons of snow days

By Andrew Flaherty 8-18 Media Special to the Journal Snow days have pros and cons. I mean it’s probably obvious that there are more pros than cons, but technically, you could say otherwise. One pro is that you get a day off from work or school, and you would get to spend time with family ...

You can’t say that!

Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren’t allowed to say. Not long ago, in fact, my new video may have been censored. One dangerous idea, we were told, was that COVID might have been created in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That ...

Putin’s Ukraine war is in sinister tradition

Vladimir Putin and his war machine get more respect than they deserve from the West. This may seem a bit counterintuitive. After all, just 9% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Russia and the International Criminal Court has recently issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war ...

Splitting the difference or just splitting?

The Biden administration thinks it has found a compromise when it comes to transgender athletes who wish to play on women’s sports teams. New proposed regulations under Title IX, the 50-year-old law passed in 1972 which “prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and ...