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Opinion

Japanese group arriving soon

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: On Aug. 12, 1979, a group of eight Marquette residents traveled to Higashiomi, Japan, to officially begin a Sister City relationship that has lasted and grown stronger over the last 45 years. On July 30, a group of nine Higashiomi, Japan, residents will travel to ...

How are you coping?

Columns

The last two weeks — beginning with the Biden-Trump debate when Biden looked and sounded even older than his years and Trump lied even more than usual, followed by the Democrats’ public agonizing over whether Biden should drop out, and then Saturday’s attempted assassination of Trump at a ...

Is Trump still a quasi-Nazi?

Columns

The White House is now faced with a conundrum — how to make the case against Donald Trump as a quasi-Nazi while lowering the proverbial temperature after his near-assassination. Joe Biden’s Oval Office address calling for toning down the overheated rhetoric in our politics was fine as far ...

Echoes of history apparent

Columns

For those of a certain age, or with more than a woke education, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump brings back echoes of history. Not exactly the history of the abysmal political year of 1968, which saw the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., 39, and Robert F. ...

Taking rights seriously

Columns

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world ...

Dangerous driving cited

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: I recently went out to retrieve my trash and recycle bins, only to find them knocked over violently. Thinking it was the wind, I was informed by a neighbor that a young woman, driving about 35 mph while talking on her cellphone, drove up over the curb onto my yard and ...