Opinion

Grateful for McBroom’s efforts on Bacco Memorial Highway

Bouquet We are the granddaughter and great-grandchildren of Medio J. Bacco, and we wish to commend and thank Ed McBroom for advocating to designate the portion of U.S. 8 from the Michigan-Wisconsin border to its intersection with U.S. 2 in Norway as the “Medio J. Bacco Memorial Highway.” While our grandfather (great-grandfather) paved this section of roadway — one of the first paved highways in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — and later built a successful business in road construction, aggregate production, and related industries, we believe he would most want to be remembered ...

Trump's name poised to be removed from Kennedy Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge cleared the way for President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center's exterior Friday, denying a last-minute request from the institution's board that would have kept the name in place. With storms gathering near Washington before a ...

Platner wants redemption, others a refund

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the Californian said, but "they are willing to extend him grace and ...

Editorial cartoon for June 13, 2026

Poll shows plunge in Trump support among independents

WASHINGTON (AP) — Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree. The analysis from researchers at The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ...

US attorney to be tapped for intelligence director

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence. Trump announced the nomination on social ...