Editorial
Flu season means taking precautions, care of self
Although the holiday season is over, flu season is just getting started. Though the duration and severity of the season is hard to gauge from year to year, it seems the sickness has already begun to spread in the Upper Peninsula, though typically the flu season is at its worst in January or ...
Editorial cartoon for Jan. 8, 2026
State urges testing for radon gas in homes
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has again declared this to be Radon Action Month in Michigan, encouraging all residents to learn more about this environmental hazard and test their homes during this winter’s heating season. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas produced by the natural decay ...
Editorial cartoon for Jan. 7, 2026
Trump and the UN come to a head
The Trump administration will always couch even its most reasonable decisions in the most dramatic terms possible, and so it was with a State Department announcement that the U.S. would be sending a significantly smaller humanitarian aid package to the United Nations: “Individual U.N. ...



