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Opinion

Leave mandate off base

Columns

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appears to have decided the best way to grow Michigan’s population is to turn it into her version of a workers’ paradise. Policies pursued this year by the governor and her new Democratic-majority Legislature are largely being dictated by labor unions and tilt the ...

Want to get educated? Try taking a walk in the cemetery

Editorial

It’s an interesting way to learn about history: a cemetery walk. And this time, it’s learning about educators. Therefore. we encourage everyone to go on the Marquette Regional History Center’s18th Annual Cemetery Walk. MRHC has two walks scheduled for 1 and 6 p.m. Thursday at Park ...

Can AOC win back our love? Maybe

Columns

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been giving interviews of late, serious interviews. The New York representative is clearly maturing. The celebrity-obsessed lefty has turned into a working member of Congress. That’s good for all who want the Democratic fringes to stop attacking their moderates ...

Lower Harbor Park to be site of great beer

Editorial

The wait is finally over for local beer enthusiasts. The 14th annual Upper Peninsula Fall Beer Festival, which will have over 500 options to choose from, will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette. According to a Michigan Brewers Guild press ...

Our changing times

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Just some things about how times have changed. Think of the technology changes. Most calls one gets is a recording and not a real person and the use of computers, cell phones, etc. is the going way. An article in the Washington Post tells of a 15 year old girl sent ...

Joe Biden’s age poses big issue he can’t get around

Columns

In December 1998, Rep. Bob Livingston, Republican of Louisiana, was set to succeed Rep. Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House. Gingrich had announced his resignation from Congress and the speakership in the wake of a disastrous midterm election for Republicans as well as revelations that ...