Month: September 2018
EDITORIAL: Clerk’s expensive vehicle request is bad government in motion
Wasteful, audacious and self-entitled behavior of government officials erodes public confidence.
Portage man to repay $16,358 after pleading guilty to unemployment insurance fraud
Portage resident Richard Burns pleaded guilty to unemployment insurance fraud.
Active shooter study: Semi-automatic rifles more deadly
CHICAGO — Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using non-automatic weapons, although chances of dying if hit in either type of assault are the same, a new analysis shows.
UPDATE: Storm’s uncertain track sows fear; 10 million in crosshairs
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Stop BEZOS and a lesson in economics
Every few months Bernie Sanders goes to the well to find another bogeyman. The current villain has so captured the senator’s attention that Sanders named a piece of legislation after him: the “Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies,” or…
Thank you to silent Samaritan
Dear Silent Samaritan: I just opened my mailbox to find a small package. It contained my wallet that I had left on the side of my truck after gassing up and driving off. Later thinking I would never see it…
Governing, not campaigning, should be politicians’ job
I know it’s election time and you believe your loyalty belongs to your party. I would like to remind you that your constituents believe your loyalty belongs to them. I think your party loyalty is a fine thing but you…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Russians should heed U.S. advice in Syria
President Trump and Gen. John Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s top military officer, have both seen Russia’s stepped-up bombing of Idlib province in northwestern Syria and the arrival of Russian warships off the Mediterra…
Maui hunkers down as Tropical Storm Olivia approaches Hawaii
HONOLULU — Maui hunkered down for heavy rains and powerful winds as a gradually weakening tropical storm barreled toward Hawaii, while Honolulu hoped it would be spared the worst.