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Opinion

What has passed is not always what was best

Columns

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

M-35 roundabout a good idea

Editorial

Although we suspect this project may face some degree of opposition as the construction season opens, we like what the Michigan Department of Transportation is planning for more than three miles of M-35 in Marquette County between Marquette County Road 480 and US 41, including converting the ...

Volunteers saluted

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: April 19–25 is National Volunteer Appreciation Week, and at Michigan Veteran Homes D.J. Jacobetti, we proudly recognize and thank all of our volunteers, past and present. Their compassion, generosity, and dedication play a vital role in helping us provide an enhanced ...

Trump, the pope and the gospel of ‘Pulp Fiction’

Columns

It is hardly surprising that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's explicitly Christian monthly worship services monthly in the Pentagon have raised alarm in some quarters about the separation of church and state. But who expected to find him quoting lines of alleged scripture that were lifted ...

Court rules federal government can’t ban at-home distilleries

Editorial

Judges occasionally declare federal laws unconstitutional. But usually when a law passed by Congress has been on the books for more than 150 years, it’s in the clear. Not so for the federal ban on homemade whiskey, vodka and gin. Last week, an appeals court invalidated a federal law dating ...

What does it take?

Letters To The Editor

Early in his political career, Mr. Trump remarked that he could “shoot” someone in the middle of Times Square and get away with it. It sounded ridiculously self-aggrandizing and absurd then. Today, I’m not sure! Since that crazy observation, Mr. Trump has had plenty of opportunity to test ...