I know the National Guard has to train and I appreciate the fact that the CRTC here in Alpena has the facilities to allow them to do that. What I don’t understand is why they create the sonic booms over the city of Alpena. There is plenty of room over Lake Huron to reach the levels that ...

It’s the last of the ninth inning in Arizona. The home team is trailing by two runs but has the bases loaded with two outs. The pitcher pauses as he approaches the mound. He removes his hat and places it over his heart, closing his eyes to pray. The batter waits outside the box, making the ...

Last month, Moody’s Bond Rating Service downgraded U.S. national debt from Aaa to Aa1, driving America’s national debt borrowing costs up by 0.45 basis points in a single day. As of May 19, 2025, at 7:17 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, the national debt was $36,218,929,729,031. When Treasury ...

In my oughts I learned about dependency and nurturing. In my teens I learned about the wider world and searched for a place in it. In my twenties I learned about love and responsibility. In my thirties I learned about growth and limitations. In my forties I learned about loss and new ...

Pride exists because for generations, LGBTQIA+ people have been shamed, silenced, criminalized, and killed for simply existing. It began as a protest — most famously at Stonewall in 1969 — against police brutality and systems that punished people for who they loved or how they expressed ...

In my column of June 7, 2025, entitled “You Can’t Tell A Book By Its Cover,” I wrote of the difficulty of determining credibility in a bombardment of misinformation. I also wrote about studies revealing our propensity to accept dogma at face value — easy answers to complex problems — ...