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Opinion

The biased broadcasting corporation

Editorials and columns

Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.The edits made it ...

Has Trump already lost the Latino vote?

Editorials and columns

For generations, foreign policy eggheads debated the question, "Who lost China?" I'm wondering if election analysts might soon ask, "Who lost the Latinos?" Almost exactly one year ago, President Trump won an impressive election victory. It wasn't the landslide his boosters claim, but it was ...

Confronting anti-Ellis Island immigration

Editorials and columns

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...

The threat of an overproduced elite

Editorials and columns

Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore. Case in point, one of the most ...

Reimagining the future of APS. together

Editorials and columns

I hope you will join me on Monday, November 17, and/or Wednesday, November 19, for an exciting and important dialogue about the future of Alpena Public Schools. Monday night is the Board of Education’s regularly scheduled Workshop meeting, and Wednesday night is a community forum. Both ...