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Opinion

What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE

Columns

Many of you tell me you feel powerless in the face of Trump's reign of terror. You view and read horrific news reports about what ICE and Border Patrol are doing, but you don't know how you can reduce or stop this horror. Let me assure you: You're not powerless. In fact, you have enormous ...

Caution urged when buying and using home pesticides

Editorial

Got a problem with pests in the home? Be careful about what you choose to use as a treatment, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development warn. The two departments recommend avoiding purchasing unregistered pesticides ...

Something’s happening here

Letters To The Editor

So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all ... — Galatians 6: 9-10a Dear friends and neighbors, No doubt you have heard some or much of what is happening ...

Beware the bully promising a ‘soft touch’

Columns

For casual observers of U.S. politics, an interview President Donald Trump gave last Wednesday to "NBC Nightly News" might have suggested a change of tone in the federal government's standoff in Minnesota. Speaking of the brute-force operations federal agents have conducted there rounding up ...

Trump focuses on foreign policy, voters worry about cost of living

Editorial

President Donald Trump kicked off his midterm campaign travel with a bipolar economy: huge growth but plummeting consumer confidence. How he navigates that tension will determine how badly Republicans fare this fall. This was the president’s message in Iowa: “Our economy is booming. ...

Senators doing job

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Many thanks to our two U.S. Sens. Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, for voting down the budget package (recently) that gave more money to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.Customs and Border Patrol and that did not add critical restrictions to those ...