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Editorial

Adopt-A-Highway fall cleanup to begin Saturday, last of 2025

Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will take to the roadsides again starting Saturday through Sept. 28 for the third and final scheduled litter collection of 2025. Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation program designed to help keep the state’s highway roadsides clean and ...

App launched to help youth quit tobacco, vapes

Youth in Michigan now have a new way to access free help to quit using tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes and vapes. The My Life, My Quit program has launched a mobile app, making it easy for teens to get confidential support from their smartphones, according to the ...

Is another era of political violence upon us?

In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation's partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in horrific ...

Local political parties do right thing

We absolutely applaud the actions of the Marquette County Democratic and Republican parties in the wake of the heinous killing last week of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University last Wednesday. A suspect is in custody. The easy play for political parties and ...

Dickinson board must resolve Open Meetings Act issues

Under Michigan’s Open Meetings Act, “a person must be permitted to address a meeting of a public body under rules established and recorded by the public body.” Dickinson County Board allows two citizens’ times during its regular meetings — one near the beginning and one near the end ...

Both parties should demand RFK Jr.’s removal from post as HHS Secretary

How many times is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. going to be allowed to lie right to U.S. senators’ faces about his deliberate dismantling of America’s vaccine shields before they finally insist that President Donald Trump remove this dangerous anti-science zealot from the nation’s top medical ...