Editorials
As most residents of our region are well aware, federal regulators are currently considering a proposal from a Texas-based company to construct a natural gas pipeline that would traverse southeast Michigan and terminate in Ontario.
Today, millions of Americans will commemorate the adoption of the foundational legal document of our nation, the U.S. Constitution.
For millions more, perhaps even most Americans, Constitution Day will pass relatively unnoticed. That is a lamentable but inevitable byproduct of living in a free society.
The founders would have understood.
Trail of the Month: July 2014
Michigan's Macomb Orchard Trail
By Laura Stark
"It's been one of the most positive things to happen for the community. We get so many users on it, and people see the positive impact it has. Everything we hear about the expansion of the trail system has been positive."
A key figure in the congressional debate over refugee children crossing the nation’s Southern border, U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, on Monday blasted the Obama administration for plans to send the arriving Central American kids to detention centers across the country, including a Michigan facility near Frankenmuth.