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Don’t base your vote on candidate ads

Did you watch any of the debates this past week? Most folks probably did not even though it was a rare opportunity to evaluate the candidates based on something other than those often misleading campaign commercials. In fact some valuable advice is, if you base your election decisions based ...

Trump’s final humiliation of Lindsey Graham

Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a ...

Moving on from a recall error

Recently, our county clerk rejected petitions calling for the recall of three Alpena Public Schools school board members. Earlier, our clerk had accepted these same petitions. But when a law firm told her the petitions were procedurally defective and that if she didn’t withdraw her ...

Has Trump broken his McDonald’s promise?

The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald's. His staff picked a propitious location in the battleground state of Pennsylvania: lower Bucks County, just south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and about a mile west of U.S. 1, suburban turf settled a generation or two ago by the sons and daughters of blue-collar ethnic communities in northeast ...

What does it take for a child to want to be around an adult?

When I was a little kid, I spent most of my days at Jefferson Elementary School. My family always seemed to have just enough money to get by, but never much extra. And if there was extra, it was usually going to pay for my older siblings' college expenses. That was where my mom and dad’s ...

Who do the political parties work for?

We are less than three weeks away from the 2026 election. Are you ready? Some folks have already begun to vote via mail-in ballots, or early in-person voting. The key question isn’t how you will vote, but if you will vote? In our form of Government, some call a democracy, others call it a ...