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Opinion

Vaccines, flu shots especially important this holiday season

Editorial

As COVID-19 and flu cases rise in the region, state health officials are urging residents to take precautions. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday asked residents to get their flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, wear masks in indoor settings, practice social ...

The Calumet area sees immigration rush

Columns

In 1866, when a 16-year-old Welsh girl came with her parents to Calumet, wrote author and historian Arthur Thurner in his book Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, she saw only boarding houses built of logs as the forest gave way to shaft houses and mining ...

Stupid people

Columns

Ever wonder why we’ve become so frustrated with people who take an illogical stand and refuse to recognize it regardless of age, profession, or its disastrous results? The dictionary defines such human beings as being “stupid,” and they show up all around us. Let’s examine a few of them ...

Driver refunds prove reforms are working

Editorial

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently advocated for giving Michigan drivers refunds from a $5 billion surplus held by the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association, and it appears this will happen. The refund is welcome news, and an indication that auto insurance reforms are working. Residents are ...

‘Native’ Americans

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I have nothing against the Houston Astros, but am glad the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. Major League Baseball (MLB) politicized the sport when it moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. That was punishment for voting regulations by Georgia’s legislature to ...

The times, they are a-changing

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: The Powers That Be in our public health “community” have been busy lately. Not honing data more precisely. Nor studying repurposed medicines. Nor monitoring vaccine reactions. Nor investigating “gain of function” research. Not even establishing where the virus ...