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Lake health and pickleball? To the editor: “City leaders” ask your constituents, friends and relatives. 1. What do you think about our lakes? 2. What do you think about pickleball? Two weeks ago, the council approved $2 million of the “Wise” Tax funds for the Lakes. Stop using the acronym “lost” to refer to our hard-earned dollars. As tiny infants, we learned “lost” is not good. May 15, 2026, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources approved a pilot study for Easy Environmental Solutions stock symbol (EZES) for Nano-Void to pump oxygen into our lakes. ...

From drone to door

Columns

There's a new delivery system in town. Well ... maybe not in your town. In some places, drones are now allowed to deliver small packages, groceries and takeout. Companies like Wing and Zipline bring people hot meals in under 10 minutes. I had to watch it to believe it. You can see it ...

News flash: We live in a mixed economy

Columns

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan keeps calling himself a capitalist. And the Democratic Socialists of America keep backing him to the eyeballs. Why? Because the DSA understands that El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Democrats in a moderate state like Michigan. ...

What bank ATMs teach us about AI

Columns

New inventions and technologies, from the lightbulb to the farm tractor to the automobile to the laptop computer to Uber drivers, cause serious job market disruptions. They also cause a backlash, as horse and buggy operators, cab drivers, video rental stores and typewriter makers inevitably ...

Varmint Vexations

Columns

Wildlife must be doing quite well, judging by the volume of roadkill I've seen lately. There seems to be a season for each species to commit highway hara-kiri. For instance, a month or so ago skunks were the prevalent source of roadside gore. Most of the stinkers appeared to be fairly young, ...

A foreseeable and dire munitions crisis

Columns

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a ...