On Tuesday, Joe Kirkish was featured on page one of the Daily Mining Gazette. It wasn't the first time Joe had been on the pages of the DMG. In fact, Joe has been a part of this publication, in one way or another, for decades. As a columnist, reviewer and contributor, he has been a treasured ...
As the Senate takes up the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (Donald Trump's name for it) passed by the House last week, there's finally some discussion of the national debt. That's because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or more than ...
MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It's titled "Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home." It sounds like the first lesson is this: a "Black Man" gets to dictate history, and no one is allowed to offer a "reality check" or else they're "robbing ...
To the editor: In Michigan, 19 percent of Medicaid enrollees are older adults and individuals with disabilities. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD), Medicaid is not just a safety net, but a vital source of access to essential long term care services. ...
Back in the early 1990s when I was running as a Republican candidate for Congress, a governor from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, once said during a three-way race for president the following, "It's the economy, stupid." Well, today, I would change that slightly to: "It's the bond market, stupid." (It ...
Has Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? "America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain," The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to enroll foreign students, the Eurasia Group's Ian ...