Happy 64th birthday (Monday) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record: Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell ...
Voting NO on the Copper Shores Millage Editor: With the August 5th election drawing closer, please take some issues into consideration in regards to the Copper Shores Elder Nutrition Millage. Copper Shores was just awarded $20 million from our attorney general, add that to the approximate ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 66 years old and have had highly episodic and infrequent shooting pains in my outer right knee on and off for the past five or six years. It's like an intense burning sensation or electric shock to the bony outer part of my tibia directly below the knee, and it only lasts ...
Dear Annie: I am almost 40 and trying to rebuild a healthier relationship with my dad. When I was a child, he was my hero, the person I looked up to and went to for advice. When I was about 10, he told me that I would probably have trouble getting along with him during my teenage years, but ...
A recent casualty of Trump's efforts to silence media criticism is Eduardo Porter, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent critics of this heinous regime. Last week, Porter wrote his last column for The Washington Post. In a widely-circulated email, he explained why he was leaving the ...
Vote Yes for a Safe Jail I am a voter and taxpayer in Houghton County but have lived other places and have experience related to local county jails. Years ago, I was asked to work at a local jail one day a week to substitute for the usual worker. I was a little afraid to work there, my idea ...