The Kalamazoo café, formerly Matchacita, changed its name after a cease-and-desist order from a similarly named business. It ...

I think if things were called by exactly what they are, rather than by misleading names (think Affordable Care Act, Inflation Reduction Act), it would be easier to make better choices. Changing the ...

Decades ago, Richard Nixon spoke to Americans during the Watergate investigation and claimed, “I’m not a crook.” That turned out to be a lie proven by his own recorded words on a White House taping ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The time to have negotiated with Democrats was during the Big Beautiful Bill. The Republicans ...

If “Katabasis” author R.F. Kuang could time travel, she’d want to be 18 years old at a Beatles concert. Living in the '60s is an enticing idea for Kuang, who's known for fantasy books “Babel” and “The ...

Here's one of those inexplicable goofy notions: Switching from Daylight Saving Time to Standard time. Now the sun will set at 5:30 p.m. on its way to setting around 4:30 p.m. in late December. People ...

A recurring question from the media lately is, What is Trump trying to accomplish? To best answer, think of President Trump as a war president, much like Franklin D. Roosevelt. During World War II, ...

Let’s hope sanity prevails and somehow this new law can be overturned. We shouldn’t have to feel like we’re in a Wild West movie when we’re shopping at Publix. If I could afford to do it, I would move ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — As Fort Worth ISD prepares to possibly lose local control of its schools, Houston ISD is in its third year of state oversight. On Wednesday, Texas Education Agency Commissioner ...

I would like to commend the Avalanche-Journal for bringing transparency to a misleading statement issued by the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees regarding the TEA’s formal investigation into ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. We need to stand up for our democracy. We are watching it be destroyed.