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Opinion

Almanac for Sept. 13, 2025

Local columns

Today is Saturday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2025. There are 109 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. Also on ...

Almanac for Sept. 12, 2025

Local columns

Today is Friday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2025. There are 110 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. Also on this date: In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as ...

Dickinson board must resolve Open Meetings Act issues

Editorial

Under Michigan’s Open Meetings Act, “a person must be permitted to address a meeting of a public body under rules established and recorded by the public body.” Dickinson County Board allows two citizens’ times during its regular meetings — one near the beginning and one near the end ...

How long will we tolerate the madness in our streets?

Local columns

In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, "a tragic situation ...

House moves as Trump’s DC emergency order set to expire

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's emergency order over the nation's capital, which federalized its police force and launched a surge of law enforcement into the city, is set to expire overnight Wednesday after Congress failed to extend it. But the clash between Republicans and the ...