And so it begins. The Baraga County Fair is this weekend, and with it the beginning of the "Fair Season." With the exception of next weekend, there's a fair somewhere in the region each weekend clear into September. I love fairs, mainly because fairs, in particular the UP State Fair, are a big ...

When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. "But if I could afford nannies, I'd like to have four." Musk reportedly replied: "That's the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will be ...

Happy 64th birthday (Monday) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record: Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell ...

A recent casualty of Trump's efforts to silence media criticism is Eduardo Porter, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent critics of this heinous regime. Last week, Porter wrote his last column for The Washington Post. In a widely-circulated email, he explained why he was leaving the ...

Dear Annie: I am almost 40 and trying to rebuild a healthier relationship with my dad. When I was a child, he was my hero, the person I looked up to and went to for advice. When I was about 10, he told me that I would probably have trouble getting along with him during my teenage years, but ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 66 years old and have had highly episodic and infrequent shooting pains in my outer right knee on and off for the past five or six years. It's like an intense burning sensation or electric shock to the bony outer part of my tibia directly below the knee, and it only lasts ...