Opinion
Who Decides?
Guest Opinion
By Shanny Brooke | March 22, 2025
One of the many purposes of art is to reflect the times and hold a mirror to society, but not everyone wants to see that reflection. Throughout history, we’ve encountered authoritarian dictators or ruling classes who understood the power of art and enacted parameters on which types of subject matter were deemed acceptable as a means to mold society. For instance, Hitler allowed only paintings of blonde-haired and blue-eyed people set in … Read More >>
Environmental Destruction Agency
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | March 22, 2025
In an essay in The Wall Street Journal, he said he wants to “... drive a dagger through the heart of climate change religion and usher in America’s Golden Age...” Of course, that was a CEO of a fossil fuel or petrochemical conglomerate, right? No, that was Lee Zeldin, the new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and he made those comments after he accepted the position. A former member of Congress … Read More >>
The End of the Page?
Student Guest Opinion
By Lainie Rintala | March 15, 2025
According to a survey by Common Sense Media, only one in five teens spend time reading for pleasure each day. However, teens spend an average of seven to 10 hours a day on social media. As a teen who indulges in both of those activities, I find these statistics troubling but not surprising. Phone addiction is a real pandemic, especially in young generations, and I believe that one of the best ways … Read More >>
Fostering New Female Spaces on the Net
Student Guest Opinion
By Tess Tarchak-Hiss | March 15, 2025
My mother’s worst nightmare had come true: I had lice. I got lice at the ripe old age of 12, posing two questions: First, can middle schoolers even get lice? And second, how did this even happen? At the time, we’d been stuck in COVID quarantine for a month. I was placed in double isolation, walking around my house with a hairnet—looking like Chris Farley in SNL’s “Lunch Lady” skit—to prevent any … Read More >>
A Bridge Too Far
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | March 15, 2025
Michigan has always been a bit of a mecca for campers; put up a tent, build a fire, head out on a hike or to the beach, and enjoy all that Michigan nature has to offer. We’ve provided plenty of opportunities for our adventuresome residents and visitors. Michigan has 103 state parks and recreation areas and, according to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), those locations saw 35 million visitors in 2024, … Read More >>
Alone Time
Guest Opinion
By Greg Holmes | March 15, 2025
There is a canyon in the Southwestern United States where legend has it that if you walk into the canyon alone, the walls will talk to you. How can that possibly be? Of course the walls in the canyon don’t actually “talk.” But what does happen, however, is that when we are stripped of the distractions that constantly surround us in our daily life, we “talk” to ourselves. Talking to ourselves can … Read More >>
Our New Friends
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | March 8, 2025
The United States has been a beacon of hope for much of the world for eight decades. It took Donald Trump a month to turn off that light. This becomes obvious as we betray Ukraine, turn our backs on our NATO allies, and inflict punitive tariffs on our best trading partners. The intentionally public Oval Office ambush of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have told our skeptical friends all they needed to … Read More >>
Doomed to Repeat History
Guest Opinion
By Karen Mulvahill | March 8, 2025
He walked into Evansville, Indiana in 1920 with nothing more than a fictional biography and outsized ambition. Three years later, D. C. Stephenson was the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and controlled the state’s politicians, judges, police, clergy, and media. The Klan’s message of returning America to “real Americans” resonated among people fearful of the rapid change of post-war America. The Klan’s targets were Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Italians, Irish, … Read More >>
Questionable Mandates
Guest Opinion
By Tom Bousamra | March 1, 2025
Surveys have reminded us numerous times that the main issue in the recent presidential election was the cost of living and high prices. So, does Trump have a mandate to do something about this? Perhaps. Indeed, he said he would fix it on day one. But what has his month in office accomplished in helping the working class maintain their existence paycheck to paycheck? Nothing that I can see. In fact, the … Read More >>
Vigilantes, and Other Issues
Spectator
By Stephen Tuttle | March 1, 2025
So many issues have arisen as the new administration lays waste to chunks of the federal government that are pretty valuable in a pinch. We’ll have to try and sort all that out another time; other issues occupy today’s space. Let’s start today in New York City, where one Luigi Mangione is on trial for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Since Mr. Mangione is presumed innocent, the word “alleged” … Read More >>
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