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Opinion

Amid cold and flu season, check labels on OTC meds

Editorial

With flu season apparently in full swing, plus colds and COVID in the mix, Aspirus Health Care recommends some caution when reaching for over-the-counter medications to treat whatever bug might have struck. Aspirus Pharmacy Resident Kenneth Yuk reminds the public to review labels carefully ...

What we are seeing should be disturbing to everyone

Letters To The Editor

On Jan. 7th, a masked ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old mother in her car in Minnesota as she tried to drive away. Renee Nicole Good was a mother of 3 children, who had just brought her 6-year-old son to his elementary school. Renee, a US citizen, born in the United States, was not under ...

ICE is a law-breaking ‘law enforcement’ agency

Columns

We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American citizen ...

Snowmobile safety always good idea

Editorial

The amount of snow the region has received this winter has certainly been well received by those who enjoy snow sports, including snowmobile enthusiast who are enjoying some of the best trail conditions in years. The well-groomed trails that crisscross the Upper Peninsula are hosting scores of ...

An assault on the republic

Columns

In a scene in Robert Bolt's famous play "A Man for All Seasons," about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he'd cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were ...

A 2026 Iranian revolution could reverse the debacle of 1979

Columns

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the U.S. depended on as a pillar of regional security, the shah, gave way to a theocratic regime based on hostility to America. The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and ...