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Opinion

Wise investments

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: America can make no better investment than in its young adults. President Biden’s forgiveness of college student loan debt does nothing to solve higher education’s runaway financial costs nor does it serve future students or those seeking further training and ...

Anti-abortion right not into compromises

Columns

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which ...

Monday is Tax Day; are you prepared?

Editorial

Well, it’s that time of year again. No, I’m not referring to spring, although based on some technicality, that would be true; and no, I’m not referring to Easter. Monday is Tax Day — the deadline for which taxpayers must submit their returns or file to request an extension by. An ...

Latest sign that GOP is abandoning even most deeply held principles

Columns

The changing of the conservative mind in recent years could hardly be captured more pithily than in the headline of a recent op-ed: “Why I believe in industrial policy — done right.” So opined Sen. Marco Rubio for the Washington Post and, at greater length, for National Affairs. Note ...

DNR: Back off oak tree pruning until mid-summer

Columns

It’s time to leave the oak trees be, at least until mid-summer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources advises. While spring might be the preferred pruning season for many tree species, it could prove fatal if done with oaks, the DNR warned in a news release. Red oaks are vulnerable ...

Repeat, repeat, repeat

Columns

Repetition while teaching children is a necessary tool that allows them to absorb information and to build on it for future understanding. It is why my teachers required repeating times tables and words in language class. When it comes to the Middle East, repetition has been unsuccessful in ...