Toon & text by John Auchter Credit where credit is due. The punchline came from a friend. We were talking over lunch trying to reconcile the events of the past week: The Republican/Trump tax bill, the Alabama Senate race, travel-ban decisions, North Korean missiles, the … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2017
Surveyin da Situation: Welcome to winter, Yooper style
By John Matonich I don’t think we always realize just how big our state really is geographically. We cover some ground that is larger than most and only overshadowed by a few other states. I spent 35 years traveling back and forth from the downstate Davison area to my hometown … [Read more...]
Come Heller high water … the Dec. 6th edition
Come Heller high water … Love that Time magazine made the women who spoke up about the Weinsteins, Spaceys, Trumps, Frankens and Moores of the world their Persons of the Year. Fitting, too. Sexual harassment, like rape, is about power. And these women spoke truth to power, … [Read more...]
Auchtoon time: Time to hold all predators accountable, not just the worst ones
Toon & text by John Auchter Larry Nassar, the doctor who worked with various women's gymnastics programs including the Michigan State University team and USA Gymnastics, pleaded guilty this week to charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct with children under the age … [Read more...]
Michigan’s Line 5 agreement with Enbridge is just more can-kicking
There are, at minimum, three major red flags in Gov. Snyder’s announcement this week of a deal with Enbridge over its 64-year-old Line 5 oil and gas pipe running beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The first is that when government doesn’t want to do something about a problem (in … [Read more...]
