It seems like every week brings some new report about the dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS — and the extent to which these “forever chemicals” have spread into the environment. In light of this growing threat, the Michigan Department of Health and ...
If you live in Marquette during the summer, then you've definitely spent your fair share of time relaxing on one of the many beaches this town has to offer. But I’m willing to bet that you’ve never heard of the Superfund site that is sitting right across from Lake Superior, across from one ...
By VERONIQUE de RUGY Syndicated columnist Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year’s extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America ...
A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Big Brother's image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state propaganda in ...
Wow. That’s what a great many Upper Peninsula residents likely said early last week when a festering behind-the-scenes Republican Party dust up over who’s endorsing whom in the upcoming 2026 elections burst into the public arena as a full-fledged mud slinger. With epithets most often ...
"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." — James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ...