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Opinion

Many in House GOP expected to back Epstein files release

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking to force the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are predicting a big win in the House this week with a "deluge of Republicans" voting for their bill and bucking the GOP leadership and President Donald Trump, ...

Almanac for Nov. 17, 2025

Local columns

Today is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2025. There are 44 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1968, the last minutes of a tense NFL matchup on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were preempted by the children's film "Heidi." The network received thousands of ...

Appreciated Edmund Fitzgerald program

Editorial

This week's bouquets go to — From Janet Lindstrom, Escanaba: Dear Players de Noc — Your performance of Nov. 10 was so moving and informative. It was so well done and as you showed the pictures of each man lost in the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and rang the bell, it became ...

Democrats won victory in defeat

Local columns

In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operation "a miracle of deliverance." Historians portray it as a perfect example of victory in defeat. Democrats raging at eight members of their ...