Representative Cam Cavitt is a proponent of a House bill that would give commercial fishers a chunk of the walleye and lake trout in Lake Huron. Is this a good idea? House Bill 5801 would require the Fisheries Division of the DNR to allow commercial harvest of lake trout, walleye, and yellow ...
Faith, Citizenship and Equal Dignity As a second-generation American, a Christian and a member of Lebanon Lutheran Church who also attends St. James Catholic Church with my husband in the White Lake area of Muskegon County Michigan, I reject attacks on anyone because of faith. My 55 years in ...
Just over a year after passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), Michigan families are feeling its harm. The federal megabill cuts billions of dollars in food assistance and healthcare for struggling households to give further tax breaks to the ultrawealthy. While ...
What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome--lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster--helped give birth to the socialists. But the overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame the "system." Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or ...
Generation after generation is adding to our lives of “stuff” as a relative dies and leaves behind a household of collections and stuff that needs to be dealt with. As we keep “old” things, it feels wrong to let them go as they have been in the family for so long. Yet, no one in the ...
PARIS -- Ever wonder how the President of the United States actually spends his time? You'd think that it would be a critically important issue, given how much work there is to get done. The President's own public itinerary reveals that he spends much of his time just fluffing himself up. ...
