EDITOR: I sat this election out for the simple reason I didn’t like the policies of Kamala Harris and do not care for Donald Trump as a person. Now that Trump has been elected, my hope is he becomes the best president in the history of the country, for the simple reason we as a country ...

Returning to my home in Iowa from a recent trip to my hometown of Iron Mountain, as I crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa, I noticed the welcome billboard with the latest state slogan, “Freedom to Flourish.” It gave me pause. Ultimately, it made me sad as I thought about it — Freedom ...

EDITOR: We are less than a week out from picking a leader for our federal government. For us here in Dickinson County, we are far removed from the federal government. However, whoever is elected on Nov. 5, the country will follow that person for the next four years. I was thinking about a ...

Which one checks your boxes? She: Bachelor of science, political science and economics, juris doctor. He: B.S. in economics. She: Political background — Vice president, U.S. senator, attorney general of California, district attorney of San Francisco. He: 45th president and the only ...

EDITOR: The Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol has recently been described as a “day of love.” This is unthinkable to those of us who watched on T.V. as an angry, out-of-control mob broke windows to gain entry into the Capitol. We would not call it love, rather a day of hate and chaos. This ...

That’s it! I can’t take it anymore, so I have to speak out about the Michigan 109th State House District race. We have all been inundated by political ads. The mud-throwing ads attacking Karl Bohnak are especially disturbing. The ads get very personal. One of the ads says when speaking ...