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Opinion

Almanac

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By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Friday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2023. There are 58 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 3, 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. ...

Emboldened global jihad is final nail in coffin

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WASHINGTON — The weeks since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, in which the most Jews were slaughtered in a single day than at any time since World War II, have seen an astonishing rise in global Jew-hatred. One might have thought that the mass carnage and unspeakable barbarism of the Hamas ...

Giant pandas make it all better — for a while

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WASHINGTON — “It’s all happening at the Zoo.” --Simon and Garfunkel Washington went to the National Zoo en masse last weekend to catch sight of its three most beloved residents: the family of giant pandas. They are Papa Tian Tian, Mama Mei Xiang and “little miracle” Xiao Qi ...

Expand FOIA laws right now

Editorial

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer promised as a candidate to expand the state’s transparency laws to compel both her office and the Legislature to give documents to the public when the public asked for them. She’s been in office for years now, and nothing’s been done to fulfill her promise. To be ...

Domestic violence article was appreciated

Letters to the Editor

EDITOR: I want to thank the Daily Press for the wonderful article written in last weekend’s edition spotlighting the domestic violence program put on by Tri-County Safe Harbor and held at Bay College on Oct. 25. Domestic Violence/Abuse is rampant and insidious and a very difficult topic to ...

Almanac

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By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2023. There are 59 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be ...