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Road construction season is here, so drive accordingly

Editorials

It seemed like Upper Peninsula residents waited a little bit longer than usual for the lingering winter of 2025-26 to dissipate and consistent summer-like weather to arrive. And along with summer comes all the things we expect, including picnics, camping, swimming and a great many road construction projects. Yes, mixed in with all the things we look forward to during nice weather are those road projects that can seem a little annoying, especially if they delay a trip. However, these projects will be making improvements to the routes we travel by motor vehicle that, when finished, will ...

The American presidency and perpetual war

Columns

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past ...

PEO thanks Culver’s for recent fundraiser

Editorials

BOUQUET To the owners, managers, and staff of Culver’s, a huge thank you for recently partnering with our P.E.O. Chapter AN for a Culver’s Cares fundraiser at your Iron Mountain restaurant. It was fun being a part of the staff for the evening. Thanks to your hospitality and the donation of a portion of the evening’s sales, we will be able to continue helping women fulfill their educational goals by supporting P.E.O. philanthropies. We thank all of you, and your customers, for your generosity! For more information on P.E.O., go to www.peointernational.org.

Almanac for July 25, 2026

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Today is Saturday, July 25, the 206th day of 2026. There are 159 days left in the year. Today in History: In 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Also on this date: In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United ...

Dems select SC for first 2028 presidential nominating contest

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WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina was selected Friday to once again lead off the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominating schedule, most likely cementing a dramatic break from decades of tradition by keeping Iowa off the top of the calendar and elevating more racially diverse ...

Nebraska’s Osborn is really real

Columns

“A Face in the Crowd” is the prophetic 1957 movie about a charismatic drifter “discovered” in an Arkansas jail. The face belongs to “Lonesome” Rhodes, a scoundrel whose folksy act catapults him to national prominence. “Lonesome” (Andy Griffith) abuses women, but the crowd only ...