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Opinion

Michael Barone

Columns

How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just ...

Holding space for good

Columns

I fell in love with audiobooks when my kids were young. We would stop at the library before a road trip and choose a few for our drive. I still love audiobooks. Many times it's a good audiobook that gets the chores done and the house clean. These days I use Audible or the library's Libby ...

Outdoors North

Columns

“Well I was born in a small town, and I can breathe in a small town. Gonna die in this small town and that's probably where they'll bury me,” – John Mellencamp Just inside the Ontonagon-Houghton county line, situated along Mill Pond Road, is a small dam across Trout Creek — a ...

Armstrong Williams

Columns

News broke recently that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer. The disease, which has now spread to his bones, is life-threatening and deeply serious. Let me say this clearly: Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted ...

Faith and Family

Columns

Patriotism and sacrifice have a long history in the United States of America. They are abstract ideals, but how does our current American culture view them? Patriotism is the love of your country, the place you call home, but so many today find home is a place that can be very movable, and so ...

Star Parker

Columns

Why is it such a struggle for Republicans to do what clearly needs to be done regarding taxes and spending? Let's get to the root of the problem. I began my work some 30 years ago with a passion to fix what was broken in our nation's low-income communities. That is, to end the cycle of poverty ...