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The first rule of book club is that nobody will agree to be named in an article about her book club. Unless she can go by her ...

To keep America strong, it's important to look beyond our own views and listen to news from all sides. I try to support leaders who care about working together, not just one party. Martin Luther King ...

Virginia Evans' debut novel, The Correspondent, was a sleeper hit of 2025. The book tells the story of a divorced woman in her 70s through her letters to her friends, kids, loved ones and strangers.

Dear Readers of The Northern Light , I first read The Northern Light 26 years ago, when I was a young reporter at The ...

What do you do when 2026 is chugging forward like a freight train, and you know the smartest people in Michigan? You ask them a lot of questions about what's going to happen. Free Press contributing ...

I want to understand why a voter in Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District would support an incumbent who consistently backs policies — and a president — that appear to conflict with their ...

One Christmas Eve, while I was closing a pharmacy in Pittsburgh, a woman rushed in with her young son, crying from an ear infection. She had run across the parking lot hoping to make it before we ...

That’s one of my earliest memories of a holiday gift that made my eyes go wide. I’d campaigned for a dirt bike for more than a year, and the mag wheels were the detail that pushed it from want to need ...

Recently, I received an email from the North Shore YMCA, encouraging me to renew my membership for 2026. For the past several years I’ve joined up for the winter months to keep physically active. I ...

The Issue: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to make assisted suicide legal in New York State. Our most fundamental right, the right to life, refers to the right to take all the actions necessary to ...