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Legion thankful for program support

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: On behalf of the American Legion Post 114 and the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 114 of Greenwood, we would like to extend a huge thank you to the following businesses and individuals who so generously supported us with our girls state and boys state 2026 program. The girls state and boys state program first presented in the late 1930's and is one of the most respected experiential learning programs in the United States. Guided by the principle "For God and Country", whereas this program focuses on responsible citizenship and leadership. Each participant ...

Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

Columns

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of ...

Price gouging is whose problem?

Columns

Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket. But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them. This should be very ...

USPS still useful, Stephen Moore useless

Letters To The Editor

So, political hack and former Trump lackey Stephen Moore wants us to believe that the USPS is no longer useful. He could not be more wrong. Moore also expresses his clear resentment for DEI in the USPS. He so cannot stand the use of the USPS worker title "postal carrier" or "letter carrier" instead of the antiquated "postman" that he had to mention it twice in the same editorial. Although some Americans have taken the easy way out by sending "I love you" and "happy birthday" messages electronically, many Americans still write letter and cards by hand and mail them via USPS. The fact ...

State offers ways to fight Medicare fraud and abuse

Editorial

Michigan residents are encouraged this week to learn how to combat Medicare fraud, errors and abuse from scammers. Medicare Fraud Prevention Week is observed each year during the week of June 5, also referred to as 6/5, because most people qualify for Medicare at age 65. It serves as a reminder that awareness and early reporting are key to preventing fraud and protecting public resources, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services and Michigan Department of Attorney General states in a news release. Fraud impacts ...

U.K. counterproductive in excluding left-wing influencers

Columns

The government of the United Kingdom banned left-wing influencers Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from traveling to the country because they blame everything on the Jews — and, true to form, Uygur and Piker blamed the Jews. Uygur and Piker were to speak at a South by Southwest conference in ...