Actress Nicole Kidman has been targeted for criticism because she is daring to buck the tide in Hollywood. She is — gasp! — behaving like a real American. During a brief interview last week, Kidman was asked about President-elect Donald Trump. Her response was that, “we as a country ...
By 2025, new cars and trucks in dealer showrooms will achieve fuel economy averaging 51.4 miles per gallon, the Environmental Protection Agency has mandated. Given the fact that by the EPA’s own numbers, average fuel economy in the United States was just 24.8 mpg, that seems more than a ...
In this mid-January time of year we are either enjoying outdoor winter activities or holed up inside the house under three sweaters and eight blankets. Some people aren’t made for cold temperatures (me) and some people love them (my husband). There is always something new and exciting to ...
Few Cabinet officers head agencies based almost solely on promises. But Dr. David Shulkin, nominated to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, will be one if he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The VA’s mission is to keep the promise we Americans make to everyone in military service. It ...
The 98th session of the Michigan Legislature commenced this past week as 42 new House members joined their 106 "veteran" colleagues as they begin the work of doing the people's business, as they like to say. But who are these legislative people who must tackle the other people's ...
As readers can see in the column next to this editorial, the assault against easy access to public information, and the public’s right to know, never seems to end. These days the arguments are that Internet access makes it easier than ever to access that information, which is true to a ...
I am writing to you in regards to the article ‘Lawmakers may repeal state’s school intervention law.’ With the new appointment of Betsy DeVos for the Secretary of Education position in Trump’s cabinet, I have to wonder more about charter schools. Betsy DeVos is a believer of not only ...
Editor’s Note: Doug Caldwell is president of the Michigan Press Association and publisher of the Petoskey News-Review. Earlier this week the Michigan House of Representatives began its 99th session. The first bill introduced deals with an important issue … rolling back Michigan’s income ...
A new independent study from the Urban Institute found that repealing the ACA without a replacement would leave 30 million people, including four million children, without the security of health coverage. Millions of people who purchase their own insurance would see an increase in their ...
Why is it that a nation like the United States of America, being so full of "patriotic minded" citizens, a mass murderer such as Charles Manson, gets infinitely better medical care than our veterans do? Talk about a mass example of hypocrisy. Steve Hatley Alpena
Did you know that Jesus went to church? Luke tells us in chapter 4 that it was His "custom" since He was a child to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath day. Obviously, he kept this custom as an adult as well. He regarded the temple as holy, where His Father lived. People speak disparagingly ...
Come Heller high water … * Sorry, Trump doesn't get to get away with the same sleight-of-tongue tricks he did during the election. He's going to be president in a few days. The bar is higher now. That means he doesn't get to call news he doesn't like "fake news." (The truth is we don't ...
The late William Safire, a certified wordsmith who had been a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, concluded, after reading 56 of them, that there had been only four great presidential inaugural addresses: Abraham ...
Motorists should expect to pay more for gasoline this year than in years past. Earlier this month the state’s gas tax increased 7.3 cents a gallon, from 19 cents to 26.3 cents. With the increase, Michigan now has the sixth highest gas tax in the country. Prior to Jan. 1, it ranked 18th in ...
It appears a substantial number of liberals consider politics to be not the art of compromise, but a stage for temper tantrums. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has a reputation of being among the more liberal Republicans in the Senate, is being targeted by some left-wingers. Her ...
I have been asked numerous times in the past about troopers or even police officers in general having monthly ticket quotas. Many citizens believe there is a specific number of tickets a trooper must write before the end of the month or in a certain time frame. The answer is flat out no, we do ...
Until they learn more about President-elect Donald Trump’s plans, policies and personality, it is likely most other nations, even our enemies, will engage in something of a diplomatic honeymoon with the new White House. Not North Korea. That country’s vicious dictator, Kim Jong Un, ...
President Barack Obama may well be hoping to paint congressional Republicans into a corner regarding the health insurance fiasco that bears his name. In reaction to GOP pledges to repeal the Obamacare law, Obama said he has no problem with the idea — providing the Republicans come up ...
Into each life some rain must fall. It does. Sometimes it pours. We dry ourselves off and step into a new, drier day. Who among us hasn’t played a losing inning or two in the game of romance? Who has not failed in their judgment of others, in an expectation, in the validity of a ...
Apparently it was not only Democrats who didn’t get the message on Nov. 8. Some Republican leaders in Congress may have missed what voters were saying, too. On Monday, GOP leaders in the House of Representatives moved to weaken the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. They did so ...