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Opinion

Almanac for Sept. 16, 2025

Local columns

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2025. There are 106 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as more than 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim more than 6 million acres of land in what is now northern Oklahoma. Also on ...

App launched to help youth quit tobacco, vapes

Editorial

Youth in Michigan now have a new way to access free help to quit using tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes and vapes. The My Life, My Quit program has launched a mobile app, making it easy for teens to get confidential support from their smartphones, according to the ...

Almanac for Sept. 15, 2025

Local columns

Today is Monday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2025. There are 107 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually ...

Michigan seniors need property tax relief

Editorial

I’ve lived in Michigan for 65 of my 75 years, and have been in my Oakland County home for 34 years. It’s nothing fancy, and there seems to be an unending series of needed repairs. But it’s mine – paid for just months before I retired. Our son grew up in this house. My husband died in ...