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by Amy Kerr Hardin After a decade of contentious litigation, the small community of Acme, Michigan — “Gateway to Traverse City” — now has a new Meijer store, just in…

It was about this time of the year, for a few years in a row, when I was asked to put on the red suit. A volunteer was needed. I…

Back in 2008, candidate Barack Obama boasted, “Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to…

by Jeff Salisbury As a retired classroom teacher (who took 13 on-again, off-again, on-again years from high school diploma to college ed degree) and a proud, long-time labor leader who…

by Barry Hastings The impending Neo-Nazi American nation. Never in my 77 years have I seen such a collection of fools and/or idiots dominating an American political party's policy-makers. And…

I reached a minor milestone Friday when I mowed my lawn in December for the first time in my entire life. My wife told me the back yard grass was…