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Opinion

The end of the road for the little diner that could

Editorials and columns

All that remained of Ruthie's Diner on Jan. 21 was charred, ice-encased rubble -- the aftermath of firefighters' desperate efforts to extinguish the blaze that ultimately consumed the modest eatery, which for more than 70 years had served locals and the travelers, anglers and hunters heading ...

The state that stands up to ICE

Editorials and columns

President Donald Trump and his federal forces chose the wrong city and state for the escalating war on civilians out on the streets and in their homes, resulting in two deaths so far. Minneapolis residents are defending city walls as best they can against masked federal Immigration and ...

Adopt the positive winter perspective

Editorials and columns

“It’s so cold.” Yup, it is Northern Michigan. It gets cold. You have a choice as to where you live. There might be plenty of good reasons you live where you do and complications to moving, but you have a choice. “I don’t like having to do snow removal.” Pay someone else to do it. ...

Canada should warm to Trump’s arctic plans

Editorials and columns

Donald Trump's Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia. He didn't, of course -- but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, ...

The wrong narrative

Editorials and columns

If you follow what presents itself as "reporting" these days you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as "bait" to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had been "kidnapped" by ICE. Rep. Jasmine Crockett ...