Opinion
Utah governor: Kirk shooting motive unclear but suspect leaned left
Local columns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Family and friends of the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk described his politics as veering left in recent years as he spent large amounts of time scrolling the "dark corners of the internet," Utah Gov. Spencer Spencer Cox said ...
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 ...
Editorial cartoon for Sept. 13, 2025
Editorial
Murder can’t be erased from record
Local columns
Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record — criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a ...