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Veronique de Rugy

Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century's worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders. The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild ...

Letters to the editor

A big thank you Editor: THE BUS, is gone … but all the items donated (over 10,000) have been organized, inventoried and are waiting to be packed into backpacks and distributed to the kids. OUR COMMUNITY gave an estimated $9,890.00 worth of school supplies, back packs, underwear and socks, with an additional $1,250 in cash this 2026 school year. A BIG THANK YOU goes out to: donors, businesses, volunteers, leaders and parents (who are thinking ahead to the needs of their family). We salute you all! Donations continue to be collected through the month of August at these sights: Copper ...

Clarence Page

Here's an easy lesson for rising political hopefuls to draw from Francesca Hong's failed bid to be Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial nominee: Don't demonize Thanksgiving. Hong, a chef, state legislator and democratic socialist, was the clear front-runner in the Democratic primary race ...

Mona Charen

It was already one of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration — the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president's big, beautiful reflecting pool. It then dropped them for legal ...

Cassie McClure

It was a meeting-heavy week. They were mostly one-on-one, which I like best, but those tend to take the most effort. The morning of day three, bracing for more meetings and sitting outside a cafe with the creeping heat starting, I watched a mother and son walk past me into the shop. Cute, I ...

Letters to the editor

Navy Street Extension Saga seems to be heating up Editor, The Hancock City Manager at one time was heard to say something to the effect of excusing herself from decision making on the Navy Street extension issue. However even now, the Mayor, Hancock City Council and DDA Members seemed to have all lost their administrative independence and ability to think, reason and act as individuals, and are ruling based upon the will of the Hancock City Manager. That mind set obviously took a change in direction beginning at the April 15th 2026 City Council meeting. The issue of spending DDA ...