“We don’t want to become the next Traverse City.” I’ve heard this my whole life living in the Upper Peninsula, but rarely does anyone explain what that actually means. At face value, it’s about rising housing costs and crowded streets. But those are symptoms. The real issue is a lack ...

To the Journal editor: Recently, The Mining Journal ran an article of the U.S. Forest Service closing all four of its research offices in Michigan. In the article, which described the positions using an acronym that to most suggested these people were in fact research scientists. A comment ...

To the Journal editor: And I must tell you, with great respect for the effort being displayed, this thing is over. Mainline protestantism has been bleeding out since 1965 and has not yet had the decency to acknowledge the wound. The Methodists split over homosexuality like a ...

To the Journal editor: I am very disturbed by changes the Trump administration has proposed for management of our National Forests. These include transferring the headquarters of the Forest Service from Washington D.C. to Utah, closing regional Forest Service headquarters, and shutting down ...

And it's still a mystery. We still haven't gotten a clear explanation about why Mr. T started this strange war in Iran. He's huffed and puffed about all sorts of bad things the Iranian government has done, from its assaults against its own citizens to its apparent efforts to develop a nuclear ...

To the Journal editor: President Trump has sent Congress a request for $1.5 trillion for the Defense Department budget for the fiscal year 2027. This is more than a 50 percent increase over this year’s budget. The United States currently spends four times more than China, which has the next ...