Floods are always personal.  They're personal for the people who wade through what's left of their belongings or mourn those they've lost.

The staff of the Office of Public Relations and Fund Development of McDonough District Hospital, and the writers of the latest edition of Vital Signs, the 50th Anniversary Edition, are commended for their efforts of the compilation of the history of the McDonough District Hospital.

Recently the Bushnell Pool was told by the McDonough County Health Department that they could no longer sell prepackaged ice cream without a licensed food individual on premise any time the pool was open.

Promote Macomb to your out-of-town relatives and friends.  This city has a lot going for it.  Let's not take all its good points for granted.  The next time you go visiting, take a dozen Macomb postcards. 

Jesse Helms was loved by Conservatives and hated by Liberals. Helms endured countless attacks by media personnel, yet did not give up the fight…fight for what he believed was right.

I am the woman that approached you in Niemann’s yesterday. You were the woman that had three children and a man with you. I am not going to assume he is your husband, but the children called him “Daddy.”

At the time of this writing the city council is considering a petition to change zoning in the Elting Street area from R-2 (single family) to R-3 (duplex) and will vote on Monday, July 21.

The recent maneuvering and power struggles between the leaders of our state government is deeply troubling and cause for grave concern.

It is a thing of beauty when Democrats and Republicans can come together to get something done in Washington for a change.

Today, the United States imports 60 percent of its oil, giving way to overwhelming price hikes and supply disruptions.

The Downtown Window Committee wishes to thank the merchants who graciously allowed their windows to be decorated for Heritage Days.

In a July second letter to The Macomb Eagle, readers are told "things the voting public needs to know" about Barak Obama. Readers should know that it, like a June fifth letter to the Macomb Journal contrasting 2008 to 1968, is a slightly rewritten e-mail that has been around for months.

Thanks to year-around donation of books from the public and support from various businesses, the 2008 Friends of the Library Book Sale during Heritage Days was a huge success.

Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not the quick fix that many people hope it will be.  Neither is it a good long term solution.