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Honor work, not wealth

This Labor Day was beautiful. We joined the Montague-to-Whitehall bridge walk, then marched in the West Michigan Labor Day Parade in Muskegon, where we visited with workers from union to union. It was good to stand with the people who are the backbone of the middle class—the workers whose ...

Ten years later, Kaepernick remains unpersuasive

A decade later, Colin Kaepernick is as tiresome as ever. To mark the 10-year anniversary of his kneeling during the National Anthem, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is out with a new memoir, "The Perilous Fight." (Get it?) In an interview with NBC News in advance of the book's ...

Who is renaming everything on the map? It’s not just Trump

In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It's easy to find these whole geographic ...

She followed America’s immigration process. Then ICE took her anyway.

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — including the Senate stakes

The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. And they might. But it's possible that the fate of the chamber known as the "world's greatest deliberative body" will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas. Everything is always bigger in Texas, and that now includes the stakes for control of the Senate. For over a decade, Democrats have touted the purported inevitability of Texas turning blue. "Demographics is ...

Harrisville native who became a Hall-of-Fame rightfielder

In Harrisville at the north end of Lake Street sits Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler Memorial Field. Once a year in mid-September for the past five years, this historic baseball diamond becomes a field of dreams for a contingent of baseball-loving old-timers who gather for a game to honor the ...