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Editorial

Keeping food and water safe when power is lost

With the widespread power outages early this week due to the winter storm — some in Marquette County still have not had service restored — and it only being the start of what normally is a long winter in the region, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is providing ...

The Washington Post on Trump’s China policy, deal with Taiwan

The Washington Post on Trump's China policy, deal with Taiwan The Trump administration’s approval of an $11.1 billion arms sale will help Taiwan gear up for, and therefore deter, a potential Chinese attack. It’s an overdo correction after months of policy changes that favored Beijing over ...

Trump’s mass firing of diplomats a danger to US standing

President Trump, would-be peacemaker on a global scale, has apparently decided he can fulfill that role with a decimated diplomatic corps that by mid-January will see more than half of the U.S. embassies lacking an ambassador. Nearly 30 ambassadors were told just before Christmas to pack up ...

AGs call on public to report gift card fraud

Coming off the holiday season, attorneys general from 13 states — including Michigan — and the District of Columbia are calling on the public to be aware of gift card scams and report if they experience them. The AGs have joined in a public service announcement campaign paid for by the ...

Trump’s reaction to the Reiners’ deaths disturbing

It’s time to ask the question plainly: Has Donald Trump finally, fully lost it? The latest indication that Trump is no longer just instinctively belligerent and cruel, but perhaps is experiencing something even more psychologically alarming, came on Dec. 15, in the form of (what else?) a ...

State stresses ‘critical role’ of children’s vaccines

Michigan’s chief medical executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, has issued a standing recommendation regarding children’s vaccines, advising health care providers and families to follow the child and adolescent immunization schedule produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics or the ...