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Opinion

AG Nessel issues summer travel tips

Editorial

As the summer travel season ramps up across the state, Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a Travel Tips alert to help consumers avoid common travel scams and stay informed about their rights while vacationing. Whether booking online or through a travel agent, Nessel encourages travelers ...

What’s real problem?

Letters To The Editor

People are up in arms because protestors in Los Angeles are waving Mexican and Salvadoran flags instead of American ones. I don’t carry a flag myself; I’ve never found salvation in a piece of cloth. But let’s be clear: the outrage here is not about symbols. It’s about who is allowed to ...

Escape and return

Columns

CAM RANH, Vietnam - The story sounds like a "Mission Impossible" script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha - known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time to ...

Avoid encounters with bears

Editorial

Anyone familiar with the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin knows this is bear country. But with this being a free weekend to go to state parks on both sides of the border, it doesn’t hurt to hear ways to better avoid attracting a large, hungry visitor when out in the woods or on the ...

Pretender isn’t great

Letters To The Editor

“A day for remembering.” This was The Mining Journal headline on May 27. Yes, I remember well my cousin, Wayne, who died on Omaha Beach. Yes, I remember his brother, Paul, who died ... parachuting over France, only miles away from where his brother lay on the beach. Two boys from ...

Big, beautiful bromance breaks up — live on social media

Columns

For those who think government should be run like a business, the messy social media spat that played out last week between President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk suggested that business could be doing a lot better. That may help to explain why shares of Musk's company Tesla dropped 14 ...