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Opinion

Congress must act to keep health coverage affordable

Editorials and columns

Enhanced premium tax credits are critically important in lowering the cost of health care for millions of families in the U.S., including more than 484,000 people in Michigan. The credits help people to afford their Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage and, yet, Congress still has not taken ...

All Saints Center for Charity

Letters to the Editor

The Alpena area has seen increased needs in our most vulnerable residents in the last few years, fueled by lack of affordable housing, increased costs and more severe substance use and mental health problems. This has led to more people left unsheltered in our community. In late 2022, city ...

Impressed by children’s manners on Halloween

Letters to the Editor

As always, I was impressed by the children who came to my house for Halloween Trick or Treating. The children were adorable with their imaginative and fun costumes. The sidewalks were filled with kids, adults and even some dogs. But the best part was that almost every child said "thank ...

Georgia, not New York, told the big story

Editorials and columns

Tuesday brought encouraging results for Democrats eyeing a sweep in next year's midterms. But the most notable portent wasn't the governor's races won by Abigail Spanberger in Virginia or Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. Nor was it Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City. The most ...

The age of brazen madness – and the collapse of fear

Editorials and columns

When a 29-year-old man in Minnesota can post a TikTok video allegedly offering $45,000 for the assassination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, we can't dismiss it as another outburst from an online extremist. It's a symptom of something far deeper -- the moral corrosion of our civic ...

Where have all the leaders gone?

Editorials and columns

I am one hundred percent I am not the only person in America who thinks our country is in a mess. If you need proof, let it be that as I write this, our federal government is shut down. What more proof do we need? The Democrats blame the Republicans, the Republicans blame the Democrats, and ...