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If the Kennedy Center Stays Closed for Now, So Be It

Go ahead, President Donald Trump, keep the Kennedy Center closed. Don't give it money for necessary repairs. This is low-hanging fruit for Americans done with your extortion schemes. They don't have to submit to small-bore intimidation like this. They can just shrug at the demand that your ...

Bike lane additions to Ludington

With the addition of bike lanes on Ludington Street, please remember that the new bike lane is that. A bike lane. Not a pedestrian gathering place to chat. Not a "swerve allowance" for motor vehicles. If you are parking, please, please, please check your driver's side mirror well before swinging open your door into the path of an oncoming cyclist legally in the path. And when pulling back into the traffic again, check, check, check your mirrors. Swivel your head and look back before you cross the bikeway into the path of a cyclist legally using their lane. Having been a year-round ...

Free AI

Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet. Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more. But lots of people are worried. "Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters. It's possible that AI will decide that we humans are in the way and imprison us or kill us. Not ...

Fall colors just around corner

Fall is the season Yoopers should make time to enjoy. For many people in the Upper Peninsula, the arrival of winter brings a certain sadness. Summer seems to disappear almost overnight and before long we are facing icy roads, freezing temperatures and months of snow. Winter is part of life in the U.P., but that doesn’t mean we have to look forward to it. Fortunately, before winter arrives, we are given one of the best gifts of living in the Upper Peninsula: fall colors. It’s still early yet but one can observe Mother Nature’s paint brush at work here and there, splashing ...

Almanac for Sept. 18, 2026

Today is Friday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2026. There are 104 days left in the year. On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of women's rights who became the court's second female justice, died at her home in Washington at age 87 of complications from pancreatic cancer. Also on this date: In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners. The act was repealed ...