To the Journal editor: Any first-time Republican representative who entered the House in 2017 has had a tough go of it. In normal times, Republicans and Democrats debate various approaches to governing, and while the balance between compromise and partisanship may ebb and flow, the basic ...
Connie Schultz What a glorious thing, watching West Virginia teachers, most of them women, shut down the state’s public schools for nearly two weeks to force their elected officials to give them the 5 percent raise they surely deserve. On the brink of victory, the crowd of teachers ...
jim zachary Open government is not a political platform. It is a basic American right. The political landscape is more polarized than ever and there seems to be little common ground for conservatives and progressives. Transparency — keeping the light on the people’s business — ought ...
Mona Charen “If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country” declared President Donald Trump at a press availability with the Swedish prime minister. He was explaining his decision to impose a tax on steel and aluminum. Why these products? Well, the president had just met with ...
Some lawmakers want to give up on fixing Michigan's no-fault insurance law and instead scrap it and return to a tort system in which motorists sue each other to recover damages. The frustration by these Republican legislators is understandable. They spent nearly all of 2017 trying to forge an ...
Mining Journal readers over the years have come to expect that we will shine a bright light on government’s attempts to get control of increasingly larger sums of your money. Historically, with just a handful of exceptions, we have urged government at all levels to take steps to live within ...
To the Journal editor: Due to recent large data breaches from a number of well-known sources, the Unemployment Insurance Agency has seen an increase in criminals using stolen identity information to attempt to illegally obtain benefits. Benefits are legitimately available only to ...
jules witcover WASHINGTON — On the heels of the resignation of Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser, President Donald Trump has responded with the favorite theme song of his own greatness, and how others clamor to be part of it. During a press conference with the Swedish prime minister, ...
It’s Friday again, and with it, the rumble is returning to the Berry Events Center in Marquette for playoff hockey. The Wildcats will host Bowling Green State University Falcons at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday (and Sunday, if necessary) at the Berry Events Center for the second round of the ...
To the Journal editor: Sadly to say, another tragic senseless killing has taken place at a school. This immediately brought out the anti-gun group against the hunters and NRA. We hear the same story. Too many guns. Or, guns don't kill, the people do. Funny how time changes things. As a ...
To the Journal editor: In response to the “More MIOSHA presence needed” letter to the editor from Mr. Dan Perkins, published in your newspaper on Feb. 22, MIOSHA has, and continues to have, a daily and active presence in the U.P. to help ensure the health and safety of working men and ...
As computers continue to replace cashiers, ticket vendors and bank tellers, consumers increasingly don't notice or care much whether they are dealing with a human or a machine. The big exception is when they do. Consumers often prefer the convenience of interacting with computers. A checkout ...
Friday’s the big day: Spread Goodness Day, created by Marquette resident Anna Dravland in an effort to help people realize that every good deed can have a positive impact on the world. Dravland has forged ahead with Spread Goodness Day despite having faced a daunting challenge: recovering ...
To the Journal editor: We have just returned from spending a month as volunteers in Najaf, Iraq. We went at the invitation of Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi-American who spent 25 years living in Minneapolis and who returned to Iraq in 2004 as a peacemaker to help restore healing to his people and to ...
Feb. 27 marked the 10-year anniversary of the passing of my old boss, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review (where I am a senior editor). This is not a column about Bill but about life and time — and how they don't move in tandem. In 2001, Linton “Lin” Wells, a former ...
School district-wise, Marquette is not Detroit, and Detroit is not Marquette. So, why should they be funded the same way? The purpose of a study conducted by the School Finance Research Collaborative, a bipartisan group of education experts and business leaders from around Michigan, ...
To the Journal editor: Something missing in the discussion of guns, gun violence, the right to bear arms and the standard NRA position that “guns and ammo don’t harm people,” is the growing documentation that shooting a gun is indeed exposing the shooter and their family to harmful ...
You wonder how these things begin. For Harvey Schmidt, co-writer of the longest-running musical in history — who died last week at 88 — and his collaborator, Tom Jones, it began when the two were students at the University of Texas. In a sense it really began in their romantic hearts. No ...
Michigan lost a pioneer late last week when former state House of Representatives member and longtime advocate and supporter of women's rights Maxine Berman succumbed to lung cancer. Berman, who was 71, died Friday. She served in the state House for 14 years, from 1983 to 1996. She was a ...
To the Journal editor: A recent article in The Mining Journal revealed that one of the largest suppliers of electricity in Michigan — Consumers Energy — is now committed to ending their use of coal by 2040 in favor of cleaner natural gas and renewable sources like wind and solar. The ...