The tents have come down

By Andrew Dodson adodson@mlive.com BAY CITY, MI — Tim Younkman, a longtime crime reporter for The Bay City Times whose passion for history and knack to tell a good tale kept him crafting words well after retirement, died Saturday. He was 71. His death was confirmed by his daughter Laicy Madrid. The cause was complications from a […]

The dispute with Mexico over a “great wall” that will keep pesky foreigner out of our country is only the latest in a historical contest between the two. Are we ready to cede land to Mexico?  We will if a wall is built because one cannot build such a thing on any land but one […]

Here’s a comment made by a certain public official: “I don’t want any of them here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty. It makes no different whether he is an American citizen…” One might think this was a quote from Donald Trump as he frothed at the mouth […]