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Opinion

Michigan’s house is on fire

Editorials and columns

The Detroit Regional Chamber President and CEO Sandy Baruah and Henry Ford’s President & CEO made this very clear at the Mackinac Policy Conference this past week. The also made it clear that in order to correct the course, we must first recognize that we have a problem and then work ...

Aging is inevitable, becoming weak is not

Editorials and columns

When Alpena was founded, strength wasn't a hobby. It was a necessity. Loggers cut the timber that built America. Fishermen worked the waters of Thunder Bay. Sailors navigated the dangers of Shipwreck Alley. Families rebuilt after devastating fires. Cement workers helped construct the ...

Artificial intelligence: A modern Tower of Babel?

Editorials and columns

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence." This pastoral letter has been much anticipated by the Catholic Church, and immediate news headlines expressed intrigue that the pope addressed ...

The lost art of talking to one another

Editorials and columns

I have a degree in communication studies, and I say that not as a credential to lean on, but as a lens through which I can’t help but view the world. It shapes how I listen, how I respond, and how I observe the ways we connect, or increasingly, how we don’t. And lately, if I’m honest, ...

Noting, not urging

Editorials and columns

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...

Fraudsters run amok

Editorials and columns

At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn't seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday of his Task ...