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Opinion

Now the second (and worse) stage of Trump’s police state

Columns

Trump's Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement. This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war. ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets. Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket ...

Ways to better avoid picking up ticks

Editorial

It’s the height of summer in the Upper Peninsula and the outdoors beckons. This long Independence Day holiday weekend will offer a prime opportunity to venture into the countryside. While enjoying all the good things the northwoods has to offer, residents and visitors alike are reminded ...

It’s going to get worse

Letters To The Editor

I think all of us were greatly saddened to hear about the July 4 heavy rain and catastrophic flooding event in central Texas that killed a number of girls at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River. Unfortunately, extreme weather events like this are becoming more common due to the global ...

Despite it all I’m still a patriot

Columns

On the eve of our nation's 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel "extremely" or "very" proud of their country. This is a new low in the 25 years Gallup has been asking this question, and the reasons are not hard to divine. We are led by a monomaniacal vulgarian who ...

Don’t look now but tourists are here

Editorial

Freshwater seas, flowing rivers and waterfalls, natural wilderness and more are all right outside our front doors. We should consider ourselves lucky, seeing as we’re the ones who live where others choose to vacation. It’s that time of year again, when our grass is greener, the skies are ...

Musk should return to the Democratic Party

Columns

Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new "America Party" to primary those who voted for it. He doesn't need a new party. He has his old one, the Democrats. Many Democrats have grown to intensely dislike Musk, and they have their reasons. ...