Reflections & Observations: This Strange Land
As 2001 rolled out, George W. Bush took office –- under a cloud. He lost the popular vote to Al Gore...

COMMENTARY: RUNNING WITH THE BUSH PACK
WASHINGTON - It’s endsville for that bum Osama. Time to send him to the big casino. That Clyde can’t hide. When that crumb is gone, ring-a-ding...

Letters To The Editor

Correction
Contrary to a statement in last week’s Mirror that Roger and Ken Genser are brothers, they are, in fact, third cousins...

Bay City Beat: Institute of Higher Worming
What is full of garbage and produces worm droppings with practical applications...?

COMMENTARY: A NO-WIN OUTCOME
Conventional wisdom asserted that in the end Congress would pass an economic stimulus bill. I was one of the few skeptics...

The Last Word: THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR

In His Opinion: Top Secret Email Revealed
I don’t know how it happened but somehow President George W. Bush’s top secret New Year’s resolutions for 2002 — by pure accident — appeared on my email...

In Her Opinion: 2002
Instead of a year in review, which for so many is with good reason frozen in time at 9-11, I’d rather look ahead to what 2002 will bring...