And so it begins. The Baraga County Fair is this weekend, and with it the beginning of the "Fair Season." With the exception of next weekend, there's a fair somewhere in the region each weekend clear into September. I love fairs, mainly because fairs, in particular the UP State Fair, are a big ...

Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: "On Power." How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages? In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people lust for ...

Unless you're roasting marshmallows, it's hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this year in Southern California, and many dealt with poor air quality as smoke drifted into the United States from fires burning in Canada. The ...

When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. "But if I could afford nannies, I'd like to have four." Musk reportedly replied: "That's the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will be ...

Happy 64th birthday (Monday) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record: Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell ...

Dear Annie: I am almost 40 and trying to rebuild a healthier relationship with my dad. When I was a child, he was my hero, the person I looked up to and went to for advice. When I was about 10, he told me that I would probably have trouble getting along with him during my teenage years, but ...