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Opinion

Kennedy stumbles on vaccine comment

Editorial

It’s safe to say that the American people are being given mixed messages — and that’s putting it very politely. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women — a move ...

Who benefits and who doesn’t

Letters To The Editor

Let’s do a tally of developments and trends so far in the current Trump administration. Simple math. What’s being enlarged and what’s being diminished. Extended commentary is unnecessary. The list speaks for itself. First, what’s being enlarged? That’s easy. • Wealth to the ...

Red America is making money off green energy

Columns

Wyoming is the second windiest state, after Nebraska. It's obvious why the wind power industry is investing $10 billion there. And it's hard to see why any state politician would oppose this. But some have. Wyoming is one of those fossil-fuel producing states in which so-called conservatives ...

Swimming is great fun but safety must always be first

Editorial

Residents and visitors are fully into the outdoor recreation mode as Marquette's beaches are starting to draw big crowds. There’s no doubt Superior's chilly waters offers soothing relief when the air temperature rises into the 70s and 80s and above, but swimmers must be reminded of how ...

Stop the cuts

Letters To The Editor

While President Trump and his allies continue to justify their economic policies as necessary to address the national debt and deficit, they simultaneously support a budget projected by the Congressional Budget Office to increase the deficit by an estimated $6 trillion. Why? To fund Trump’s ...

Baby boom, baby bust and the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Columns

As the Senate takes up the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (Donald Trump's name for it) passed by the House last week, there's finally some discussion of the national debt. That's because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or more than ...