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Investing in U.P.'s youngest residents is investment in all of us

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: A baby born in the Upper Peninsula and a baby born in Ann Arbor arrive with the same theoretical access to care, but the U.P. baby's mother may have driven past two hospitals that couldn't deliver her child, rationed gas money between appointments and groceries, or spent her third trimester relocated hours from home. By the time her baby arrives, the gap is already wide and it has almost nothing to do with the care received. That is why the expansion of Rx Kids to the Upper Peninsula deserves the full attention of policymakers, health systems, funders and ...

China's growing presence in Western Hemisphere is real threat to US

Columns

It is China's unprecedented presence in our Western Hemisphere, not Iran's "aspirations" for nuclear weapons, that is the much bigger threat to the United States. For starters we do not need to be waging a war or continuing a war to stop the "aspirations" of the Iranian people. It was made ...

Data center freak-out apparent

Columns

Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We must stop it!" says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Slow ...

This latest attempted presidential assassination isn't like the others

Columns

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Remember when presidential assassination attempts used to be rare and not something that happened once every quarter? What's even more disturbing than their current frequency is the desensitization that seems to have set in. The discrepancy between official and ...

The Comey indictment and free speech

Columns

In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. ...

Watch for Adopt-A-Highway groups doing roadside cleanup

Editorial

Groups of volunteers will be doing spring cleaning along Michigan’s highways in coming days, picking up the trash and other discarded materials. Beginning today, motorists should be on the lookout as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out across far northern Michigan for the first of three scheduled collections in 2026. The pickup period continues through Sunday, May 17. Taking part will be the entire Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula counties of Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Lake, Leelanau, ...