EDITOR: On Wednesday, July 23, the Northwoods Antique Tractor Club will have our 11th-annual tractor ride to the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain. We will meet on State Street near Alter Metal Recycling in East Kingsford and be ready for an escort by Kingsford Public Safety ...

EDITOR: Has our democracy evolved into a political system of party affiliation? The principals of our system of government were founded on the ideal of impartial and absolute rule of law for everyone and individual freedoms of free speech and thought. The idea was that elected officials would ...

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On Aug. 5, Dickinson County voters will be asked to approve another 20-year millage for Bay College. In other words, they are asking for millions more dollars from property owners in Dickinson County. While supporting education is important, it’s fair to ask some thoughtful questions before ...

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 ...

Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away ... Apologies to Hughes Mearns and his poem “Antigonish,” but the man who wasn’t there is U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman. Bergman is the top spender in the U.S. ...