It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News and Small Business Support Act, that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many newspapers, help ...

My wife knows well that one of my favorite sayings is, “There is only one Jones family, and we ain’t it.” It’s my tongue-in-cheek way of stating my intention to not engage in a can’t-win arms race. I’d like some control in the core tenets of what my family and I live by, not be ...

Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers play an outsize role in the most rural parts of our state, including areas of Northeast Michigan. In rural areas, where police or emergency medical help may be far away, conservation officers are sometimes the first to arrive on a ...

I and the newsroom crew recently went out for drinks to celebrate our summer intern’s 21st birthday. At one point in the evening, my senior reporter, Steve Schulwitz, started talking shop and detailing some tricks of the trade he’d learned over his years and years of reporting. All the ...

As the weather warms up and we head into the dog days of summer, it’s easy to let my mind wander and think of baseball. I never played on a team growing up, but I’ve always been a big fan, and, like so many Michiganders, the Tigers have been an integral part of summer — listening to ...

State Rep. Cam Cavitt, R-Cheboygan, Northeast Michigan’s state rep, faces a recall petition over his yes vote to elect state Rep. Joe Tate, D-Detroit, as speaker of the state House. Gary Wnuk, a former Republican Alcona County commissioner and member of the Fairview Area Schools Board of ...