I simply love my flip cell phone, but I’ll get to the specifics of this admiration a bit later. Is it me or does everybody frantically scramble and hustle to blindly reach for their cell phone…
With a deadly pandemic, an economic downturn, the climate crisis and an urgent need for racial and economic justice, President Joe Biden already has plenty on his plate. But another cause dema…
The Ramones famously sang about wanting to get sedated, but if any of them were alive to today, they might have changed their opening line of “I Wanna Be Sedated” to “20, 20, 20, 4 hours to go…
I guess I never gave much of a single thought about cashing in my bottle returns at the local grocery store until the world decided to stop spinning on its axis last year. The shutdown and the…
When I first started in the newspaper business back in 2006 the late Publisher Jim Dunn and my then boss, Editor John Morris, thought I was a rube. For those who don’t know what a rube is, the…
It goes without saying that winter is a time to go deep on TV watching. After all, you’re stuck in the house with no other place to go, and the TV is just sitting right there, begging for you …
Irony is ordering an emergency weather radio from eBay, and the day it is supposed to arrive in the mail, it is delayed due to a massive weather event. For Michigan residents, especially in th…
In working in journalism I’ve found that you learn something new every day, and if you don’t, you’re not trying hard enough. But some days are leaner than others, and when you talk to people y…
Editor’s note: This editorial was written by Brian Calley, President, Small Business Association of Michigan; Bob Doyle, President and CEO, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants…
Iosco County voters should approve the operating tax levy increase for Iosco County, which would increase the millage rate of the county from 3.9129 mills to 4.500 mills.
The Oscoda Township Board of Trustee’s recent vote at a September meeting to hobble the duties of the township’s treasurer and clerk, and seek a financial director for the township at a cost o…
It is not uncommon to get a glut of letters to the editor during an election year. We have been getting piles of them this year concerning everything politics, and there have been more than a …
Ever since Facebook exploded into society I’ve taken the stance of using the website as not a way to gossip about things going on in the community or the world, but as a way to connect with fr…
There was something off about this past Saturday that I could not put my finger one until I opened up Facebook and realized what I was missing. I was reminded with sudden clarity, much like ha…
