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Opinion

Watch for Adopt-A-Highway groups

Editorial

It’s again time for groups of volunteers to walk along Michigan’s highways, graciously picking up the trash and other discarded items thoughtlessly left behind by others. Beginning Saturday, motorists should be on the lookout as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out across Michigan for the ...

almanac

Local columns

Today is Wednesday, July 9, the 190th day of 2025. There are 175 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and "equal protection under the laws" to anyone "born or naturalized in the United States," ...

Selling the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Local columns

WASHINGTON — It's one thing to pass a major piece of legislation and have it signed by the president; it's quite another to get the public to swallow it as something that benefits most of the country. House and Senate Democrats, who stood in unison against President Trump's "big beautiful ...