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Opinion

Words of encouragement

Letters To The Editor

To The Journal editor: With a lot of news about climate change, which is now happening, more hot weather, hurricanes and more severe storms. Think about where you live. The southern states are noticing a big change. Temperature in the 100s and lasting longer, plus many more tornadoes. In ...

Time to tone down rhetoric

Columns

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln In the aftermath ...

Know your voting options with primary only weeks away

Editorial

Millions of Michigan households are now receiving a postcard with important voting information from the Michigan Department of State. The postcards inform voters of their options to vote in the Aug. 6 primary election and the Nov. 5 general election: with an absentee ballot, at an in-person ...

Maybe Biden isn’t such a kind-hearted, wise statesman after all

Columns

Joe Biden is being transformed before our eyes, at least in how he’s portrayed in progressive circles and the media. The empathizer-in-chief and savior of democracy has become, in a matter of about two weeks, a clueless and selfish threat to all that they hold dear. Poor Joe Biden can ...

Pedestrian and bicycle-related crashes rise

Editorial

The number of overall traffic crashes and fatalities on Michigan roadways fell slightly in 2023, according to recently released data from the Michigan State Police Criminal Justice Information Center. However, crashes involving vulnerable roadways users, such as pedestrians and bicyclists, ...

It’s time for Biden to put country first

Columns

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” — Proverbs 16:18 President Joe Biden, who earned our respect and affection over the past four years, is now trying our souls. In an interview on a Philadelphia radio show, he mumbled that he was proud to be “the ...