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As if climate change-related rising lake levels, extreme weather and threats to biodiversity weren’t enough to worry about, now we can also worry about the public health threat of invading mosquitoes. North America has about 250 species of mosquitoes, of which about 70 are found in Michigan.

A reader still insists I transform this real estate into an Orwellian two-minute hate session against a former president employed used as a de facto stand-in for Emmanuel Goldstein, George Orwell’s strawman version of Leon Trotsky in “1984.” If we all join in the fray of the two-minute hate, we’ll conveniently forget the rampant incompetence […]

Freedom of speech, am I right? I’ve heard people use it as an excuse for talking loudly in a movie house and offering incendiary comments in public spaces. Just as it’s frowned upon to shout “fire!” in a crowded theater, it’s also bad form to pull a fire alarm on purpose and lie about it […]

My regrets to the Kinks’ Ray Davies for the borrowed headline. Last week closed the book of summer, but we were granted a respite from the sometimes-cruel nature of autumn. Hence, the scattershot proceedings that follow this brief introduction. I apologize in advance as my memory still casts a brand-new 3 wt. rod into a […]

MOSQUITOES: Two disease-transmitting mosquito species are heading northward into the coastal areas in the Great Lakes region due to climate change, a new study by EPA scientists warns, and they carry …

Ahhh…demagoguery! A form of intellectual cowardice that seemingly brooks no dissent but withstands no rational scrutiny. Any challenge to the demagoguing individual (or, more accurately in recent years, newspeak-regurgitating agitprop groups) is met with evil! Evil! Eevil! That is, of course, until reality knocks ‘em upside the head and all hell breaks loose. Don’t expect […]

Jerome The Comedian will be celebrating his retirement in the Army at the Twice As Funny Comedy Lounge with a Comedy tour.

West Covina's Ethan Mendez and Zach Requena dominated in the backfield for the Bulldogs' third straight win.

West Covina's Ethan Mendez and Zach Requena dominated in the backfield for the Bulldogs' third straight win.

West Covina's Ethan Mendez and Zach Requena dominated in the backfield for the Bulldogs' third straight win.