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Opinion

Almanac for March 17, 2026

Local columns

Today is Tuesday, March 17, the 76th day of 2026. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. Today in history: In 1992, white South Africans voted 68.7% to 31.3% to end over 40 years of apartheid in a national referendum. (Voters of all races were allowed to vote two ...

Silent attacks on personal freedom

Local columns

During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into ...

Ovation for Bay and Players’ ‘The Producers’

Bouquet

This week’s Bouquet goes to Players de Noc and Bay College — From Cathy Uhazie, Escanaba: The Players de Noc production of "The Producers" was hilarious! Thank you all for sharing your talents, putting it all out there and living your best lives. There were so many scenes full of pure joy, ...

Political parties on perilous ground

Local columns

As Donald Trump's Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what looks to some like prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens, one is tempted to ask, ...