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Almanac for July 23, 2025

Today is Wednesday, July 23, the 204th day of 2025. There are 161 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: In 1967, the first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents, ...

Trump caught in his own trap

A new poll, on a matter that adamantly should not be decided by untutored public opinion, finds that 79% of Americans believe all of the documents relating to the Epstein case should be disclosed. A shocking result? Not quite. Ask Americans, who've been hearing wall-to-wall accusations about ...

No due process at Gitmo

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States ...

Renewal, not new: Bay Yes! launches campaign for millage

The Bay Yes! Committee is urging Dickinson County residents to vote YES on the renewal of the Bay College Iron Mountain Campus millage during the upcoming election Tuesday, Aug. 5. This is not a new tax, but a renewal of the existing millage that has supported local higher education since ...

Inflation-driven debt could sink economy

Can you hear the canary in the economy's coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans that ...

‘Big Green’ making big bucks

Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations — $8 billion! "The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry," physicist Mark Mills says in my new ...