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Opinion

The United Way story — Impactful, relevant, sustainable

Editorials and columns

The year 2022 was one of transition for the United Way of Northeast Michigan. We changed our business model to improve fundraising and the delivery of program and services enhancing the common good by creating opportunities for all in our communities served. Previously, 80% of our support was ...

Amazon expands jobs and services in rural America

Editorials and columns

ERIE, Pennsylvania — Few outside of those who live there understand what the county of Erie's future holds for its economic future. Is it rural? A port? A city? A college town? A beach town? A faded Rust Belt hub for industrialization? Drive around the county and you'll soon find that it is ...

Lisa Cook is wrong

Editorials and columns

Uncharacteristically for him, Donald Trump is being too modest in asserting his power over the Federal Reserve. He's fired Lisa Cook "for cause," citing a clearly pretextual alleged mortgage infraction, when as a constitutional matter, he should be able to fire her, or Chairman Jerome ...

From all directions: America’s become a place for hate

Editorials and columns

"You know," the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, "I've spent my life separating the right from the kooks." The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely so, about what he regarded as the deeply misguided policy ...

Who decides what constitutes waste, fraud and abuse?

Editorials and columns

One of the country's veteran and some would say wise U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart nailed it when he wrote he could not define pornography but "I'll know it when I see it." Stop laughing because when it comes to defining "WFA" in the state budget, it really depends on whom is ...