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Scams online seen here, elsewhere

They’re called catfishers and their smarmy online activity is known as catfishing. Nope, it has nothing to do with wetting a line in your favorite stream or brook. It does, however, have everything to do with gullible but well-meaning people being bilked out of their money. And according to one recent study, the state of Michigan ranked quite high in terms of numbers of victims of these so-called romance scams. According to this study, Americans lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year and that amount, in all likelihood, will continue to go up. Here’s an informal, indeed, ...

The aberrant killed the normal

The culture war wasn't just a metaphor at Utah Valley University last week. We need to learn more about Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, but based on what we know so far, he represents the polar opposite of Kirk in every important respect. The young man with the ...

The Guardian: Charlie Kirk’s killing shouldn’t be used to foment further political division already polarized US

“Democracy is the way that we have diverse societies that don’t kill each other, largely,” Lilliana Mason, a leading scholar of partisanship, observed recently. She added: “As soon as we stop believing in it, it disappears.” Dr Mason’s own research suggests that there is sharply rising tolerance of political violence. On Wednesday, it claimed one more victim. The shocking killing of the co-founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, a hugely influential activist who rallied young people to Donald Trump’s cause and far-right ideology more broadly, has been widely and rightly ...

Solving hunger here, elsewhere, is possible

Is he name Abraham Maslow familiar to you? He was an influential psychologist who came up with a theory of how humans can reach their full potentials. His article titled “A Theory of Human Motivation” appeared in a 1943 edition of “Psychological Review.” In it, Maslow describes an ascending order of needs that must be met for people to become their best selves. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has five levels and takes the shape of a pyramid, with self-actualization at the top, the pinnacle where a person can achieve her or his full potential. Below self-actualization is esteem, ...

Be alert for text message phishing scam making rounds

Government officials are out with a new warning this week, trying to keep the general public aware of the latest schemes afoot to part them from their money. It seems cybercriminals have a new nationwide text message scam now circulating in Michigan that requests taxpayers’ personal banking information, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury. In this latest scheme, scammers send urgent, unsolicited messages that appear to come from the Michigan Department of Treasury. The message falsely claims that a refund has been processed and that accurate payment information must be ...

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 attractive. Participants adopt both sides of a section of state highway roadside to tend for at least a two-year period. A minimum 2-mile stretch of roadway is recommended. For the safety of all, motorists should watch for these volunteers, who wear high-visibility, yellow-green vests required by federal ...