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Opinion

Escape and return

Columns

CAM RANH, Vietnam — The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was ...

Upcoming PrideFest in Marquette will be a celebration for all

Editorials

This upcoming weekend, Marquette’s festival season kicks off with a celebration of the region’s LGBTQ+ population when PrideFest takes over Marquette’s Ellwood A. Mattson Lower Harbor Park. The event is put on by Upper Peninsula Rainbow Pride, a Marquette-based nonprofit that states it ...

Putin not likely to be intimidated

Letters to the Editor

President Donald Trump stated he would end the Russia-Ukraine war his first day in office. He made this insane statement a number of times. It’s not as if it was one of his looney-tune ideas of opening up Alcatraz again or buying Greenland or making Canada the 51st state. He stated this idea ...

The global political pattern of Metropole vs. Heartland

Columns

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s ...

Learn to practice PlayCleanGo against invasive species

Editorials

Start protecting your favorite places. The Michigan Invasive Species Program is joining the North American Invasive Species Management Association to promote PlayCleanGo Awareness Week, taking place this year from June 14 through Saturday. The annual event aims to educate outdoor ...

The right to be left alone

Columns

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right ...