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Opinion

But what do I know: Mary Stevens

Columns

As a 21-year-old woman who grew up in a Catholic family, I was bestowed with an interesting perspective on feminism and the place of women in our modern society. The Church’s traditional teaching on the role of women often conflicted with my mother’s fiery, determined personality. She and I ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Congressman Jack Bergman vs. Canadian Smoke Editor: Congressman Jack Bergman wants Canada to manage its forests better to eliminate wildfires and alleviate smoke that’s causing hazardous air quality in the U.P. He requests prescribed burns, forest thinning, etc., actions that Canada already ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

PARIS — Barbie's performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it's not Ken, who's famously neutered by design. It's Donald Trump and the rest of the bros virtue-signaling "manliness" like it's a lost art. Barbie dolls were once seen as the exaggerated feminine ideal, until they started ...

Salena Zito

Columns

HARRISON CITY, Pennsylvania — Eileen Cunningham is a mother of four and grandmother of three with another on the way. The wife of "Goose" Cunningham — when you are from Hazelwood, everyone has a nickname — possesses the unique quality of bringing people together to form communities. How? ...

Letter to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Triathlon a success Dear Editor, I am writing to thank all the amazing people who took part in our 5th annual Verna Mize Triathlon. The participants, volunteers, and law enforcement personnel made for another safe and enjoyable day. Coupled with an absolutely beautiful morning; all the people ...

Robert B. Reich

Columns

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities ...