Someone said, “Life’s a song.” The chorus is the part that repeats itself. More than that, time has a way of digging up the past and making it shine like a brand-new diamond. I have always loved music for inspiration and enjoyment. Does anyone remember Quicksilver Messenger Service? ...

Is the United States more violent? If you watch the news and political ads, you would likely answer yes, but what does the evidence say? My sources are FBI records, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics as part of the Census Bureau’s annual ...

EDITOR: The Centralized Campus is the new and most effective model in education today nationally. As an educator for more than 30 years with experience as a classroom teacher, school counselor, track/swim coach, college instructor and most recently coordinator of the Dickinson-Iron Great ...

EDITOR: This was Russia’s Khruschev’s prediction about the U.S. in 1959. Sobering words. Where do YOU think we stand? “Your children’s children will live under Communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept it outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of ...

Not everyone receives the daily newspaper, so they are not aware of what the Iron Mountain School Board has in store for us. On Monday, Feb. 20, the Iron Mountain City Council met at 6 p.m. at Iron Mountain City Hall and I attended. They were patient with me and showed interest in my bringing ...

Here we are in 2023, with some of us STILL hating each other for the color of the skin we happen to be born in or for the religion we happen to follow or the place our ancestors or ourselves may have come from. And still hating each other for myriad other reasons that, if we are asked, we ...