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Yes, I am a gasoholic

Letters To The Editor

A recent letter to the editor asked if we (Americans? Yoopers?) are "gasoholics?" The writer explained how he recently purchased a Chevy EV pickup and is happily avoiding the volatile fuel prices of a declining petroleum resource, reducing his climate change impact and also the apparently excessive maintenance costs of owning a gas-powered Jeep. The writer enjoys being able to plug his truck in to recharge the battery. When it is plugged in, whether at home or to a government or business owned recharging station, there is a cost charged for recharging your vehicle. The home electric ...

Keep artificial intelligence out of American classrooms

Columns

Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It's rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It's not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the ...

What has passed is not always what was best

Columns

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

Take a hike, or a bike

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Dry pavements are now the lanes for those who walk and bike. The non-polluting means of getting around are less costly than driving. And if your lane took you out so far that you would like a ride back, try mass transit. Busses have bike racks. Cutting emissions for Earth Day and everyday just makes cents.

State should step up on compulsive gambling

Editorial

With the state of Michigan, according to its own records, raking in a veritable mountain of cash each year from legalized online gambling, it is not at all clear why Lansing isn't doing more to provide resources to deal with the inevitable result of all that betting: Compulsive gambling. According to a recent story from the authoritative Bridge Michigan that was reprinted by The Mining Journal, Michigan received a failing grade from an advocacy group for its efforts to protect gamblers. The state pulled in $624.6 million off online gambling last year, including $27.1 million in taxes ...

The 10 most important ways to resist now (revised, updated, expanded)

Columns

In light of Trump's increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior — toward Iran, toward the pope, his posts, his bottomless vengeance, his continuing ICE raids, his continuing use of the Justice Department to target his enemies, his shameless corruption — many of you want to know: "What can I do ...