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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Congressman Jack Bergman vs. Canadian Smoke Editor: Congressman Jack Bergman wants Canada to manage its forests better to eliminate wildfires and alleviate smoke that’s causing hazardous air quality in the U.P. He requests prescribed burns, forest thinning, etc., actions that Canada already ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

PARIS — Barbie's performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it's not Ken, who's famously neutered by design. It's Donald Trump and the rest of the bros virtue-signaling "manliness" like it's a lost art. Barbie dolls were once seen as the exaggerated feminine ideal, until they started ...

Salena Zito

Columns

HARRISON CITY, Pennsylvania — Eileen Cunningham is a mother of four and grandmother of three with another on the way. The wife of "Goose" Cunningham — when you are from Hazelwood, everyone has a nickname — possesses the unique quality of bringing people together to form communities. How? ...

Letter to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Triathlon a success Dear Editor, I am writing to thank all the amazing people who took part in our 5th annual Verna Mize Triathlon. The participants, volunteers, and law enforcement personnel made for another safe and enjoyable day. Coupled with an absolutely beautiful morning; all the people ...

Robert B. Reich

Columns

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities ...

Today in history, August 7, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Today is Thursday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2025. There are 146 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 7, 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, over 1,300 feet above the ...