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Editorials and columns

Jeffrey Epstein: a hero to Democrats

Before the House and Senate voted nearly unanimously -- with just one "nay" in the House -- to unseal the Epstein investigative records, the Epstein estate released 20,000 pages of unseen Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Following that, Democrats began their tour of publicizing a ...

Ken Burns is completely wrong about the Iroquois

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...

The drone industry

Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. No it's not Superman. It's a drone. Thousands of 'em. They are everywhere. They carry Amazon products literally to your front porch. Real Estate agents use the video from the drones to hawk their homes. Utilities save money by using drones ...

A holiday of working together

ALPENA — Now that Thanksgiving is in the rear-view mirror the Christmas season is in full swing. The holidays are special to the residents of Northeast Michigan, as it is for the staff at The News. To properly recognize Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years The News intends to share as many ...

Christianity makes the most sense

Today I’m going to recommend a book for you to purchase as a gift. For others and for yourself. There are so many competing, jumbled, contradictory worldviews today that it can seem that life makes little sense. When my daughter was little, we could tell when she was getting sick. She ...

Thankful to whom and for what?

Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or anyone else "thank you." The usual response has been for as long as I remember, "you're welcome." For the young, especially, it has become "no problem." Why would thanking ...