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Opinion

Poll shows growing concerns about the US job market

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are growing increasingly concerned about their ability to find a good job under President Donald Trump, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds, in what is a potential warning sign for Republicans as a promised economic boom has given ...

Almanac for Oct. 20, 2025

Local columns

Today is Monday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2024. There are 72 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur waded ashore in his return to the Philippines against Japanese forces in World War II, fulfilling a promise he made ("I shall return") after being ordered to ...

Focus next week on driver behavior around school buses

Editorial

To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols next week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted Monday through Friday ...

Mills happens to be a lot younger than Bernie Sanders

Local columns

So Democrat Janet Mills, governor of Maine, is running against Susan Collins, the state's Republican senator since 1997. An established political figure would be running against another established political figure, yet the current reportage for Mills tends to start off with "77-year-old Janet ...

WH sets meeting with colleges still weighing agreement with Trump

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — The five universities that are still weighing President Donald Trump's higher-education compact have been asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to two people familiar with the matter. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to ...