LYNNE AGRESS: Success doesn’t always bring happiness
By LYNNE AGRESS Guest Columnist (TNS) Reading the news — the real, not fake news — and watching it on TV can make many of us unhappy. Famine, wars, […]
Apple buying Tesla? A ‘poor idea,’ says Warren Buffett
By Rex Crum The Mercury News (TNS) When Warren Buffett talks, everybody listens. And one person who might want to listen closely is Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook. During […]
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Poverty programs worked, so get’s get rid of them?
By SASHA ABRAMSKY Guest Columnist (TNS) For many decades now the GOP has sought to undo the New Deal and the Great Society. But a report released last month […]
DAN RODRICKS: On the death of a wordsmith, words come hard
By DAN RODRICKS Guest Columnist (TNS) Once upon a time, the Capital Gazette was a competitor of the The Baltimore Sun. But since 2014, when the Cap became part […]
MAX STIER: An HR crisis for the USA
By MAX STIER Guest Columnist (TNS) As Americans, we have only one institution with the resources and the public mandate to address our nation’s most vexing problems: the federal […]
JOHN M. CRISP: Why Democrats could win in 2018
By JOHN M. CRISP Guest Columnist (TNS) On the night Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, I attended a fundraiser in Belton, Texas, for “MJ” […]
GUEST VIEW: Good reasons for Trump to stay in Paris accord
The following editorial was published in the April 20 edition of Newsday: (TNS) To the list of issues dividing President Donald Trump’s fractious advisers, add Paris. The battle over […]
Poet researched Great Lakes’ wrecks for new collection
LANSING — A 200-pound ship’s radiator interrupted a funeral in 1922 when it plunged from the sky and into the Falk Undertaking Parlors on Military Street in Port […]
Vanderwall, Scripps against Great Lakes water diversion
MANISTEE — The race is in full swing to secure the seat representing the 101st State Legislative district of Michigan, which covers Manistee, Benzie, Leelanau and Mason counties. […]
City planning commission approves development permits
MANISTEE — New development is on the way in the City of Manistee. The city planning commission approved several permits and requests for developments during its meeting Thursday […]