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Wealthy Cousin Wants to Bury Grudges Sep. 28, 2024
Dear Annie: I am writing to you basically needing advice on a matter of snobbery and arrogance. This... Read More
Sunset Is Coming on the Summer of Cicadas May. 25, 2024
I hate cicadas. I hate their big, beady eyes. I hate their prehistoric bodies, and how they'll fly i... Read More
I Hate the Dog Days of Winter, Doggone It Jan. 27, 2024
These are the dog days of winter. Oh, I know, technically it's the "dog days of summer," and we hav... Read More
The Heartland After Heartburn: Wisconsin and Washington Jul. 12, 2023
WISCONSIN — Birdsong on my grandmother's porch in morning sun. Seeing the Village revel in the... Read More
Midwestern Weather: The Worst, Other Than Everywhere Else Mar. 11, 2023
It's a cold March day in the Midwest, with fresh-fallen snow on the ground, and this is about the ti... Read More
Give Thanks for the Northwest Ordinance Nov. 25, 2022
Unsure of what to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season? Here's a suggestion of something to be t... Read More
Flown Over: The Impact of Airlines Cutting Service to Flyover Country Jul. 05, 2022
SWANTON, Ohio — Twenty years ago, the Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport here in western L... Read More
Extra! Extra! Boy Walks to School! Jun. 23, 2022
A Michigan story getting a lot of attention for reasons you can probably figure out on your own is h... Read More
Missouri Lawmakers Propose Eroding Abortion Rights, Endangering Public Health Jan. 06, 2022
Missouri legislators return to Jefferson City Wednesday with some big decisions to make regarding re... Read More
Seeing America from the Ground Jul. 13, 2021
OTTAWA, Ohio — This is not a story about politics. Instead, it is a story about America and ho... Read More
Why Democrats Lost and Will Keep Losing Elections Nov. 21, 2020
Why, Democrats have been asking, do so many poor white people vote for a Republican Party that doesn... Read More
Trump Will Win by Giving Them Hell Sep. 01, 2020
President Donald Trump isn't the first incumbent president to run for reelection facing a deficit in... Read More
Survival Skills Rise From a Wisconsin Girl's Roots May. 06, 2020
You may see me as a Washingtonian journalist, but there's a Wisconsin girl more than skin deep. Faci... Read More
If Half the Country's Deaths Were in Montana, Would New York Shut Down? Apr. 21, 2020
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standa... Read More
After Suggesting It's OK to Let Down Our Guard, Trump Smartly Reverses Course Apr. 01, 2020
Until Sunday, President Donald Trump continued to fire up his base with suggestions that it was time... Read More
America's Troubled Waters Nov. 19, 2019
CRESCO, Iowa — If you come to this rural Iowa town, you'll learn about a problem that may soun... Read More
Voters Send a Warning to Pro-Trump GOP Incumbents to Expect the Unexpected Nov. 11, 2019
Despite Democratic zeal over Tuesday's special election results, it's far from clear where Americans... Read More
A Lake Michigan Vacation -- Almost May. 25, 2019
By Steve Bergsman When Norbert Blei wrote his most famous book, "Meditations on a Small Lake," he wa... Read More
Farmers Report Suffering Financial PTSD as Trade War Threats Escalate. May. 07, 2019
The winning never seems to stop for rural supporters of President Donald Trump. His effort to sabota... Read More
Door County: Cape Cod of the Midwest Apr. 07, 2019
By Athena Lucero The woman I met in Los Angeles grinned with nostalgia when I mentioned my recent vi... Read More
