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Gasoline prices have surged to their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has me feeling pretty good about my electric vehicle purchase. I know that utility prices are also on the rise, but being able to plug my car in at home instead of paying horrid prices at the pump has still ...

Jamie Stiehm

Call him the "antisocial" media president. When a president attacks the Pope, he telegraphs: "There's nothing I won't do or say." That is a profoundly troubling message. There are no lines I won't cross, no rules I won't break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole wide world. ...

Erick Erickson

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, podcaster Candace Owens turned her wrath on Mr. Kirk's widow, Erika. Owens began perpetuating conspiracy theories about Mrs. Kirk with a heavy implication that Mrs. Kirk was somehow tied to Israel, which itself was tied to Mr. Kirk's ...

Jeff Robbins

There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," — the influential novel about slavery — and former President Abraham Lincoln. "So," President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, "you're the woman who wrote the book that made this ...

Letter to the editor

Editor: On April 28th, the Houghton Planning Commission will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed rezoning along a section of East Lakeshore Drive. Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting and offer their thoughts, or just observe the dialogue. One of the main issues is the impact this rezoning will have on a section of the Waterfront Trail. The lot in question is currently owned by the city and zoned RSV (“reserved” or single family residential). A single developer has shown interest in buying the property in order to build and sell condominiums. For this to proceed, ...

Tim Graham

If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden ...