A new rule in state court will require records to be deemed nonpublic after they’re bound over to circuit court. Like some kind of game of switcheroo with felony files, the records will be closed in district court on bind-over to circuit court, then closed in circuit if the case is remanded ...
To the Journal editor: One can only wonder how a community that historically came together to solve issues has become so divided with comments to each other having become so unproductive. This is not just the case for the community in question this is a statewide problem. The two arguments ...
Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalization of abortion in 1973 reduced the number of unwanted children, who might have been at higher risk of committing serious crimes. And that ...
Postal services in the Upper Peninsula appear to be headed down a disastrous path. Thankfully, Gary Peters is attempting to subvert that. Peters, D-Michigan, authored legislation in 2021 for significant postal reform, improving operations and “saving about $50 billion over the next 10 ...
After Iran’s massive drone and missile attack on Israel Saturday, President Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You got a win. Take the win.” Most of the weapons, the first Iran had ever fired on Israel from its own territory, were successfully ...
Very often, it seems, the man falls through ice stories that make the news end badly — in the man’s death. We are pleased to report that a very recent case of a man falling through ice locally did, in fact, end positively. Here’s what happened. Last Friday afternoon, Thad Cooper of ...