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Opinion

Guard against porch pirates during holidays

Editorial

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is urging consumers to take proactive steps to protect their packages from theft as part of her office’s ongoing Holiday Scams Campaign. With an increase in online shopping during the holidays, consumers face heightened risks of “porch pirates” ...

Almanac

Local columns

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2024. There are 25 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. On ...

The Hunter Biden pardon

Local columns

WASHINGTON — Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question from David Muir of ABC News about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,” the president said. He repeated that ...

Why Trump and Federal Reserve could clash in coming years

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that his policies would reduce high borrowing costs and lighten the financial burden on American households. But what if, as many economists expect, interest rates remain elevated, well above their pre-pandemic ...

Hunting has many benefits

Letters to the Editor

EDITOR: I am writing in response to the recent letter from Diana Peach which expressed her opposition to hunting. Although I personally haven’t hunted deer, I have hunted ruffed grouse and many of my friends and family hunt deer and other wild game. There are many aspects of hunting that ...

Three Januarys: All Ye need to know

Local columns

WASHINGTON — My father and I, discouraged at the election over the holiday, opened a book of poetry I brought along to the house. Somewhere we traveled was back in time to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration on a bright snowy day on Jan. 20, 1961. Almost unbelievably, Kennedy asked New ...