We’re all in the same boat, let us steer for a while
Editor’s Note: Jane Briggs-Bunting is a board member and founding president of the Michigan Coalition for Open Government (MiCOG), a tax exempt, Michigan nonprofit corporation founded to promo…
Being informed about a topic is sometimes not easy to do, and I think that is why many spend their time being uninformed, truly uninformed, about a wide variety of topics because it’s the easy…
Often people ask me what they can do to make a difference in our community. There’s one way right now that you can make a real difference: by participating in the 2020 Census.
Readers who may be keen observers of the Iosco County News-Herald and the Oscoda Press may have noticed a subtle change in the newspapers with our inclusion of a new slogan on the nameplate of…
This past Wednesday Iosco County joined other county governments in asking the State of Michigan to declare the Lake Huron shoreline as a disaster area, and personally I think that it was a go…
Well it seems that winter is officially upon us, with mounds of snow to move and icy lanes to travel as we continue our day to day business in northern Michigan. It was just one of those thing…
Every year we take a little time machine trip – in the form of our newspaper archives, not a 1980s DeLorean, unfortunately – to see what was reported in the community 50 years ago. In this wee…
Editor’s note: On Sept. 21, 1897, The New York Sun published what was to become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. It was sent by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who lived with her pare…
As Porky Pig famously said at the end of most Loony Tunes cartoons, “That’s all folks!” If he was in Oscoda this past Sunday he would have perhaps said that phrase to talk about the Oscoda Kmart.
There was a funny photograph floating around the Internet on Sunday depicting Tim Allen as Santa Claus. Allen is of course the famous actor from Michigan who does the Pure Michigan ads, who is…
If you’ve not seen some of the special sections that we’ve had in the newspaper recently you are missing out. I know a lot of readers like to skip to the things they want to read first, whethe…
If you’ve read my column over the years you’ll know that I’ve continually fawned over the vast variety of choices that are available to watch on television these days. Whether you have Netflix…
My cats are good indicators of foul weather or something irregular going on outside of my home, and they were no different Monday morning. Both were running around the house from window to win…
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” is a phrase that is often inaccurately attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but he didn’t actually say those exact words.
