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Five Reasons to Support the Houghton County Jail Millage To the Editor: Over the past 25 years, we’ve attended numerous meetings about the Houghton County Jail. Recently, we’ve both also toured the jail. Given this, we support the proposed millage for a new jail for the following reasons: 1. SPACE: Any structure can only be repaired so much before it’s better to build anew. Modern jails require much that was not considered when our current jail was build 53 years ago: Internet technology; space for safely storing personal protective equipment and weapons; disability ...

Armstrong Williams

Columns

As America approaches the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump's second administration can be described in one word: consequential. Whether one considers those consequences beneficial or dangerous depends largely on where one stands politically. But even Trump's fiercest critics must ...

Jonah Goldberg

Columns

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...

Mark Wilcox

Columns

As I get older (full disclosure, I'm not yet 70, but I can see it from my back porch), I tend to look back at my life and remember, with amazing clarity, certain days. I know I'm not unique in this. I'm sure everyone has an event where they can recall exactly where they were and what they ...

Jeff Robbins

Columns

For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...