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Weak state laws on mobile homes need fixing

Michigan has more than 1,200 mobile home parks, with at least a dozen of them in the Traverse City area. Amid the array of housing choices in the region, mobile home parks traditionally have provided some of the most affordable options for individuals, especially retirees on low or fixed ...

Beginning of end for Trump?

“It’s not like in the movies,” is good advice for almost any field or endeavor, from war to Wall Street. But perhaps nowhere is it more true than in politics. At the end of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Claude Raines admits he was the villain all along. Lonesome Rhodes, the ...

Let’s talk about the Nazis

We’ll get to the Nazi flags in a moment. First, however, let us turn to Merriam-Webster for clarification of a point recently made in this space that left a few of you vexed. It came in a passage that noted the right wing’s attempted takeover of state voting apparatuses and contended ...

West End Weekly – Nate Heffron, Negaunee City Manager

NEGAUNEE — The Central Upper Peninsula is about to gain a new inpatient facility that aims to provide specialized substance abuse recovery services for women. This facility will be located in Negaunee in the former Bell Hospital Teal Lake Medical Facility. Great Lake Recovery Center ...

Mike Pence sold his soul for absolutely nothing

Mike Pence thinks he has a shot at the presidency. You can imagine how the conversation went with his political advisors: People are tired of Trump. They want to move on. And you're the perfect person to fill the void. You served him faithfully, but when it came to violating the ...

President Biden is obviously not too old to run for office again

A friend asked her therapist whether her new romantic interest, 17 years her senior, was “too old.” He responded, “Too old for what?” Those wise words could also apply to President Joe Biden, about whom many are asking the same question. Pushing 80, Biden may be slower than he was. ...