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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two years after voters tossed Democrats from power in Washington, polls show they are ready to switch sides again. Does it make sense to welcome back a party and its ideas that were so recently rejected? The reason so many voters are frustrated by both parties is that they have been putting ...
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...
