Words have weight. Words can be weapons. Words can be medicine. Words can harm or heal. Choosing words wisely and thinking before reacting seems to be a lost art. Of course we think reactionary things when faced with a problem that seems outside of our control. But, reacting immediately ...

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it — I have proof of that. Last month, I had an accident and I underwent an extensive abdominal surgery, staying a week at the Alpena Hospital Unit 2. Here I was taken care of as if I was their only patient. I can’t say enough about how ...

U.S. Sens. Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin have introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the 108th anniversary of Selfridge Air National Guard Base and commending the thousands of men and women who have worked and trained at Selfridge since its inception. We’d like to add our support to ...

In 2017, Congress and the Trump administration passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), one of the largest overhauls in our tax system since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. It is a law built off an outdated economic theory called supply-side economics (commonly known as trickle-down economics), ...

The politics of today is not what it was years ago. The state is divided into tribes with one for seemingly every special interest group you can think of including left-handed, cross-eyed redheads and everything else in between. Back in the dark ages in the state legislature, whenever the ...

Americans deserve honest discussions about Social Security. Unfortunately, that’s not what’s happening. Remarks about Social Security from Elon Musk — a Trump administration adviser assigned to find ways to cut government spending — have drawn an outsized response from Democrats. ...