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More Money for Schools? Yes, Please! Editor: As a proud Hancock resident, I believe deeply in the power of a strong public education system. After decades of disinvestment, Michigan schools remain underfunded, needing an additional $4.5 billion just to be able to give every student the education they need and deserve. In 2025 our students' literacy and math outcomes reflect exactly what legislators have historically put into our public education system: not enough. From classrooms stuffed with 30+ kids, to the fact that our schools are 49th of all FIFTY states in school funding ...

Outdoors North

Columns

“But songs of love should not be sung where staying is not planned, and foolish I would climb once more a tree too weak to stand,” – Gordon Lightfoot If you look at his posture, to see him stand, you’d know he either started out with difficulties or developed them somewhere along the ...

The Raffel Ticket: Keith Raffel

Columns

Warren Buffett made billions spotting undervalued assets. Today, many billionaires have decided the cheapest buy on the market is influence over the Trump administration. Take the recent purchase of CBS owner Paramount Global by Skydance Media. The companies needed approval for the ...

Tim Graham

Columns

One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden's mental decline, and all the ...

Rich Lowry

Columns

Donald Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he's got it. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple of months ago. Illinois Gov. ...

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Columns

During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons ...