It appears that coolers heads do prevail, in some cases. An embattled public health officer in Michigan will get to keep her job, after a lengthy legal fight with county commissioners over pandemic-era mask mandates concluded Tuesday with the board bowing to the will of a court-ordered ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer may be tiptoeing around the state constitution in stripping the education department of most of its funding, but we support her objectives in doing so. The governor’s executive budget provides just $162.8 million for the Michigan Department of Education, down 75% from ...

Certainly Superiorland and beyond can expect more snow this very unusual winter. How much and when, of course, is another matter. But it’s at least likely that we will continue to have these meltdowns during the balance of the season. According to the American Family Insurance website, ...

Northern Michigan University is continuing with the Harden Hall renovation as well as the Science Complex Research and Teaching Labs addition. The NMU Board of Trustees late last week approved continued funding the projects which, according to Vice President for Finance and Administration ...

Democrats in the Michigan Legislature last year passed a trio of gun laws in the wake of the shooting at Michigan State University. Those laws took effect recently. We urge every gun owner in our area to familiarize themselves with the new laws to make sure they don’t run afoul of the ...

“Where there is a wrong, there is a remedy.”— Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) Last week, a New York court ordered the Trump Organization and its principals — including the former president — to forfeit nearly $400 million to the state government. This gargantuan punishment ...