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Never forget 9/11

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Like many Americans, I was devastated by the loss of nearly three thousand lives at the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. I was 17 that day and it felt like the world was ending. In many ways, it did. Our culture, security measures, our opinions on Islam and our very notion of who we were as a nation changed forever. Twenty-five years and two wars later, New York has a proud Muslim mayor and Abdul El-Sayed is a strong front runner for Senate in Michgan. As 42 year old me pondered the meaning of this amid increasingly hateful rhetoric, I ...

What do we know after 9/11? Little, if anything

Editorial

Like most Americans who were adults on Sept. 11, 2001, my life is divided into "before" and "after" 9/11. I awoke to a phone call from a friend at the airport, where her flight had been canceled, and turned on the TV just a few minutes before the second plane hit the World Trade Center ...

Which one sounds like us?

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Everybody up here knows the drill. You come over a rise in a whiteout and there’s a car nose-down in the ditch. You stop. You pull them out, or you sit with them until somebody with a chain shows up. Nobody asks where they’re from. Nobody sends a bill. Next time it’s your car. They do the same thing at the Soo, across an international border. Sault Ste. Marie has been one town with a line through it since 1817. The two cities keep a fire mutual-aid agreement, renegotiated in 2023. Between 1998 and 2022, firefighters from the Canadian side crossed the bridge ...

Tips on safely navigating traffic to and from school

Editorial

With Labor Day behind us and the new school year in full swing, it's time for a primer on how drivers and students should adjust to the heavier traffic of classes being back in session, AAA advises. "School commutes are now more complex than ever," Adrienne Woodland, spokeswoman for AAA - The Auto Club Group, said in a news release. "Drivers aren't just watching for students on foot and children getting on or off school buses. They're also sharing the road with e-bike and e-scooter riders. When you combine that with distracted driving and speeding, the consequences can be ...

'Trumpapalooza' a sad, unnecessary spectacle that achieves nothing

Columns

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...

When war comes home: A constitutional warning

Columns

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of ...