The following editorial appeared Monday in the Grand Haven Tribune: Look at Michigan’s apple crop last year. Because of a warm spring, followed by a late freeze, a huge portion of the crop was lost. The result? Paying $8 a gallon for apple cider. But what about gas prices? There haven’t been any natural [...]
The following editorial appeared Wednesday in the Philadelphia Inquirer: With a variety of indicators showing the housing market finally seems to be rebounding from the last decade’s boom and bust, home buyers and lenders have a chance to get it right this time. Smart new mortgage rules coming into effect on Jan. 10 could [...]
The following editorial appeared Thursday in the Grand Haven Tribune: According to Boone & Crockett’s trophy search in 2013, four of the top eight states — No. 1 Illinois, No. 2 Indiana, No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 7 Ohio — share our borders. Yet Michigan is nowhere to be found among the list of [...]
The following editorial appeared Wednesday in the Chicago Tribune: Modern DNA analysis has been a godsend to the criminal justice system. By making it possible to identify individuals who leave behind biological material at crime scenes, it allows police and prosecutors to accurately implicate the guilty, particularly in murders and rapes. It has also [...]
This following editorial was published May 28 in the La Crosse Tribune, Wis.: Hindsight says we should have seen the financial crisis of several years ago coming. Not enough people did, and it nearly took down our economy. Now just as we’re on the slow path of recovery, with housing sales hammered by the [...]
The following editorial appeared May 29 in the Detroit Free Press: It seems like only an eye-blink ago that Michigan Republicans were debating whether residents with Hispanic surnames should be fed to alligators or just summarily deported. Flash forward a year, and it’s hard to find a politician in either party who doesn’t favor [...]
The following editorial appeared Thursday in The Philadelphia Inquirer: If Congress doesn’t act by July 1, college loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. But Washington is still dawdling even as students worry about whether they will be able to stay in school. The proposed remedies range from a bill [...]
The following editorial ran May 15 in the Detroit Free Press: It’s hard to think of any justification for the Justice Department to have snatched up thousands of phone records from the Associated Press, but there had better be a forthright explanation coming. From Attorney General Eric Holder, and from President Barack Obama, who [...]
The following editorial appeared Monday in the Grand Haven Tribune: An international group recently looked at the issue of low water levels and what could be done to try and amend the situation. The Joint International Commission called for a study to explore the impact of placing inflatable gates or other devices in the [...]
Snyder’s Shoes has been a staple in downtown Manistee since 1938 when C.R. Snyder opened the first location. Seventy-five years later, the business is under the ownership of the third generation of Snyders and still offers the same values. Manistee is lucky to have a business with such deep roots in the community when economic [...]