Never letting the opportunity for special favors go to waste seems to be the operating philosophy of the Legislature. Lawmakers stuck nearly $1.3 billion in pork spending to the $82 billion budget on June 28 in the dark hours before the appropriations plan came up for a vote. The 11th-hour ...
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” scoffed then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019. Two years later, now president Biden declared: “The Chinese are eating our lunch. They’re eating our lunch, economically. They’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars in ...
There’s a new mural in town. The latest mural in the city of Marquette is on the side of the Trenary Toast building at the corner of Washington and Third streets. Led by local muralist Hannah Milkie and assisted by young artists, the new piece of art is quintessential Marquette and the ...
It was just a matter of time before choice became mandatory. Last week, a federal judge denied a request by parents of students in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Montgomery County, Maryland, to be able to remove their children from classrooms when books containing LGBTQ+ characters are read ...
We’ve all heard the expression “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The Cambridge Dictionary defines the idiom’s meaning as “there’s always a cost for something you want.” We have to agree, as adults, that it’s wise to be wary of the motivations of people, businesses ...
Having completed the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle, it’s tempting to focus on minor but perhaps momentarily decisive details, such as whether Ron DeSantis was wise to outsource strategy to a committee that he’s legally barred from communicating with or whether it was ...