UPPCO customers shouldn’t be asked to shoulder steep rate hike
Just too much. That’s our position on the Upper Peninsula Power Co. asking its customers for a $17.3 million rate increase, when people and families have already been pushed to the limit by skyrocketing grocery bills and gasoline costs that are closing in on $5 per gallon Added up, that’s why the Michigan Public Service Commission, the state regulatory agency that has the final say on electrical raters, should reject UPPCO’s rate request as submitted, a proposed hike that would produce an average 15.6% increase for residential customers. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and ...
Tariffs, trade wars have made US farming harder
JD Vance was in Iowa last week, trying to shore up GOP support in the heartland. "We want farming to be easier in the United States of America, not harder," the vice president told the crowd in Council Bluffs. Farming is always hard but what could be making it even harder these days? Hmmm. Could it be President Donald Trump's tariffs and trade wars that have raised farmers' costs and lost them markets abroad due to retaliation? Asking for a friend in the Midwest. While Mr. Trump can claim all he wants that foreigners pay his tariffs, Deere & Co. said on an earnings call last month that ...
Almanac for Sept. 30, 2026
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2026. There are 92 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 30, 1949, the Berlin Airlift came to an end after delivering more than 2.3 million tons of cargo to blockaded residents of West Berlin over 15 months. Also on this date: In 1777, the Continental Congress — forced to flee by advancing British forces — moved to York, Pennsylvania, after briefly meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna, Austria. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Boulder Dam ...
The perfect metaphor
The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” You can’t make people understand the truth if they choose to ignore it. The problem ...