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Opinion

PrideFest a celebration for all

Editorials and columns

This upcoming weekend, Marquette’s festival season kicks off with a celebration of our area’s LGBTQ+ population when PrideFest takes over Marquette’s Ellwood A. Mattson Lower Harbor Park. The event is put on by Upper Peninsula Rainbow Pride, a Marquette-based nonprofit that is committed ...

A long walk to protest ICE

Editorials and columns

On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line — the old American border between slavery and freedom — walking to Washington, D.C., over the course of three weeks in May. They canoed across the broad, grand Susquehanna River. They walked more than 300 miles from New York to ...

Eighty-twenty

Editorials and columns

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colo., who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman's victims was a Holocaust survivor. Soliman and his ...

Don’t fear AI

Editorials and columns

ChatGPT is coming for your job. That's the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a "white-collar bloodbath." The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all ...

Lambing season at Hit n’ Miss Farms

Editorials and columns

If you ask 16-month-old Fynn Centala about the animals pasturing in the field just beyond his lawn, he will give you a distinct and serious, “Baa!” “Oh yeah, he definitely loves the sheep,” admits his father, Brian Centala. Fynn is no different than any other child growing up on a ...