Over a million federal employees are going without paychecks because the House and the Senate can’t agree on how to keep our government open. Calling this a national crisis would be an understatement. So what is Congress doing about it while a million federal employees are struggling to ...
There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job. League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most ...
My first thought when sitting down to write this column was that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. However, after 8 million people showed up on March 28 to oppose him and his policies, it appears he has some stiff competition for the title. Still, I'll allow Trump to make the case against ...
I wish I was surprised when I saw the statement from the City of Alpena asking citizens to refrain from, “using abusive language or threatening gestures” toward the Department of Public Works (DPW) snowplow drivers. But I wasn’t surprised. I was disappointed in humanity. Again. Some ...
Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question -- independent of the military merits -- that Congress must answer: How will it be paid for? The Pentagon has requested $200 billion to fund the campaign. While circumstances could change the price tag, interest payments on ...
There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you. So let's kill cancer before it kills us. This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and ...