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ORCHID: To the Warren Family Mission for getting hundreds of students off to a great start to the 2026-27 school year by hosting a recent giveaway of snazzy backpacks filled with fresh new school supplies. Lines that snaked around the mission’s Tod Avenue NW headquarters began forming six full hours before the giveaway. That’s clearly a strong illustration of the need for basic necessities for the new academic year in our community. It’s also a clear signal that the mission remains a vital and compassionate cog in the Greater Warren community. ONION: To those who foolishly put ...

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Status of Warren- inadequate hospital availability, understaffed current hospital, empty storefronts, empty YMCA, deteriorating closed hospital, lack of incoming medical personnel, minimum wage jobs, overpaid council members, overgrown lawns and lots, etc. Good job, Mayor Franklin! Good job, City Council! And you expect quality young people to move into Warren? Dream on! — Warren When are the Republicans going to decide to help Americans with food, gas, rent, everyday expenses and health insurance? Is it when few have health insurance, the sick lay dying, and more and more are ...

News flash: We live in a mixed economy

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Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan keeps calling himself a capitalist. And the Democratic Socialists of America keep backing him to the eyeballs. Why? Because the DSA understands that El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Democrats in a moderate state like Michigan. They firmly expect that once elected, he would do as they say, which happily conforms with what he truly believes. Confusing? Yes, on purpose. But let’s move beyond this war of labels. Let’s stop using socialist and capitalist as either compliments or denunciations. The United States has a ...

Summertime political reruns

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When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from “Help”), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the previous fall and spring. A few still do, like “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” but those are syndicated shows. Still, it can be fun to watch programs you missed, or even ones you have seen, especially if you can impress someone with “Jeopardy” answers because you know them. Reruns that always annoy are the political ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the ...

Criticize Trump all you want, but don’t ignore your backyard

Ed Puskas

State and local politicians of all stripes owe a debt of gratitude to President Donald Trump. I know that sounds strange, given the Trump administration’s ongoing war in Iran and the president’s plummeting approval numbers — both overall and on key individual issues — with ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Lying should not be a good look for a US president DEAR EDITOR: All politicians lie. That’s not a new concept, and whether it is true or not doesn’t matter when too many people accept it as fact. The Trump era has brought us to a tipping point: Since lying is ubiquitous, it must not be wrong. This is dangerous territory for a democracy. I’ve known hundreds of politicians, and I’m sure some, maybe even many, lied. Sometimes, I could tell if they were lying; sometimes I figured it out later through fact checking. But I never knew anyone who lied the way President Trump does. ...