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Opinion

Watch for Adopt-A-Highway groups

Editorial

It’s again time for groups of volunteers to walk along Michigan’s highways, graciously picking up the trash and other discarded items thoughtlessly left behind by others. Beginning today, motorists should be on the lookout as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out across Michigan for the ...

Searching for monsters

Columns

"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit." — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams ...

Labor unions kill jobs

Columns

Progressives love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class. I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for better workers, gave us the weekend. But whatever you think about capitalism, few people question ...

United we stand?

Letters To The Editor

Inspiring, patriotic and unifying were the words to describe the July 4th Independence Parades in Marquette and Ishpeming. The theme of the Marquette parade was “United We Stand” which dramatized the need to promote unity and respect out of the division and hate we see in America today. One ...

Don’t blame Donald Trump for floods

Columns

Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst. The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in Central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 80 people, including two dozen ...

Wall Street Journal on the Epstein conspiracy

Columns

These are boom times for conspiracy theorists, and one problem is they’re never satisfied. There’s always another coverup to unravel, or another hidden file somewhere that the evil establishment is hiding. That’s what Trump Justice Department officials are learning to their dismay now ...