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Opinion

Fight to maintain local control of utility siting

Letters to the Editor

Citizens for Local Choice is leading a petition drive to allow for a ballot initiative to repeal aspects of Michigan Public Act 233. That law strips away local control of large-scale electrical utility projects. Michigan has 83 counties and 1,240 townships. Officials representing these ...

Remember the days when your bike was your best friend

Columns

Who remembers their first real bike? Not the tricycle kind, but the actual two-wheeled child bicycle? The day you get your first real bike is a day to remember. The moment I first laid my eyes on my new bike is forever logged into my memory. It was a surprise. And I immediately leapt with ...

Column: Welcome Holy Week into your life this year

Columns

We are about to enter what Christians call Holy Week. Jewish people will be entering their Passover celebration around the same time. Holy week began on March 18 and ends on Easter Sunday, March 31. It is not by accident that Passover and Holy Week coincide. Remember, Jesus was a Jew, and on ...

Faith Perspective: Get close to God with a KISS

Letters to the Editor

Getting close to God is easy with a KISS approach – Keep It Simple Sinner. A personal relationship with the Lord is just that – a one-on-one connection. It does not have to include church or reciting prayers. But it does involve praying. Saying prayers before going to bed is something ...

Column: What does it mean to ‘become one flesh’?

Columns

I have just spent a month with my husband at what we call “the shore.” This is in the Gulf. We go there for one month in the winter. This winter was strange because the Copper Country was almost as warm as the Gulf. But we enjoy it. Usually, he fishes and talks to all the other fishermen, ...