ALPENA — Over the past several years, the list of franchise stores and restaurants in Alpena has grown, but people in the area still express interest in other things they would like to see developed locally. Target, Olive Garden, Buffalo Wild Wings, Panera Bread, TJ Maxx, Kohl’s, and ...

Donald Trump has long complained that Democrats are better at sticking together than Republicans are. He’s already revisited this gripe. In meetings with Republican leaders from the House and Senate and with the House Freedom Caucus, he reportedly insisted that Republicans need to be unified ...

The New York Times describes Trump as leading “a global wave of hard-line conservative populism.” Rubbish. What Trump is undertaking has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, which is about conserving institutions and shrinking the size of government. And it has nothing to do with ...

Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year. But a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office reveals serious ...

When President Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Colombia if President Gustavo Petro did not accept criminal migrants deported from the U.S., he did not get the initial response he expected. Instead of immediately caving to Trump, Petro countered with plans for his own tariffs on U.S. goods ...

Not a month old, the second Trump presidency is barreling toward the decline that big-mouth leaders have been sending their countries for centuries. Theodore Roosevelt warned of such dangers. Speaking at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, he famously shared the African proverb, “Speak softly ...