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Editor: On April 28th, the Houghton Planning Commission will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed rezoning along a section of East Lakeshore Drive. Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting and offer their thoughts, or just observe the dialogue. One of the main issues is the impact ...

Cal Thomas

Columns

Democrats are again trying to pry some of the religious vote from Republicans, but their actions expose the insincerity of their approach. The latest example involves an order of Catholic nuns in Hawthorne, New York, who care for the terminally ill. The Washington Times reports the nuns are ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace." Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled "EVs ...

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now — when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran ...

Georgia Garvey

Columns

PENTAGON FRONT DESK: Hello. Can I help you? JESUS OF NAZARETH: Hello, my child. I am Jesus of Nazareth, here for my 10:30 appointment with Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense. FRONT DESK: OK, sure. Hold on a second. He's just finishing up with someone right now. (Out walks Mother ...

Holding Space for good

Columns

Watching the Artemis II space flight has filled my days with awe and wonder. From pilot Victor Glover's poignant Easter message and mission specialist Christina Koch's "space plumber" story to the crew naming a moon crater for commander Reid Wiseman's late wife. Artemis II really shows us what ...