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Opinion

Don’t risk it today: Drive sober on 4-20

Editorial

Today, April 20, or 4/20, has become an unofficial holiday for cannabis enthusiasts. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) remind cannabis users that it is dangerous and illegal to use cannabis and then ...

Maybe larger families will produce better leaders, as in the early US

Columns

Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, while today’s America, with 333 million people, generates the likes of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump? That’s a ...

Michigan should restore inmate good time credits

Columns

A ballot drive to return good time prison sentence reductions to Michigan is failing, but there’s a chance to revive the idea with a twist that could make the corrections system more effective in returning inmates to society prepared to lead productive lives. Michigan voters ended the ...

Possible wolf solution

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Live trapping wolves in the Upper Peninsula and relocating them in the lower peninsula where the numbers are higher, could be the answer. Relocate say 100 or 150 over the desired number in the U.P. Relocation could possibly have a number of benefits: Higher deer ...

Public court files should remain public

Editorial

A new rule in state court will require records to be deemed nonpublic after they’re bound over to circuit court. Like some kind of game of switcheroo with felony files, the records will be closed in district court on bind-over to circuit court, then closed in circuit if the case is remanded ...

Communication needed here

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: One can only wonder how a community that historically came together to solve issues has become so divided with comments to each other having become so unproductive. This is not just the case for the community in question this is a statewide problem. The two arguments ...