On the night before a dramatic regime change in the United States, we urge media and citizens who depend on politically-stilted resources to do their own fact-checking before they present their political opinions based on faulty premises in front of everyone else.  A recent letter from a local triggered our inner editor, and inspired us to write this piece and publish it to show how fake narratives have divided our country, and why we should never publish such misinformation unless your only…See More

You may have heard of the deaths this year of Bob Uecker and David Lynch, two eccentrics of the sportscasting and director fields, but this last week hit closer to home, we lost a longtime contributor to the Ludington Torch who first joined us back in 2014:  Shinblind.…See More

The January 13, 2025 meeting of the Scottville City Commission was historical in that the five members of the depleted commission unanimously decided, without any regard to the public's opinion, to take the steps needed to dissolve the Scottville Police Department (SPD) and replace it with the same county sheriff coverage as Eden Township receives.This monumental act of…See More

A year ago, in the span of about a month, the Ludington Torch had asked the Ludington Police Department for bodycam video footage involving three unrelated arrests.  After many years of cooperation with city departments and receiving body cam footage of over a dozen other incidents without charge, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Coordinator and chief of police began making ridiculous FOIA fee charges using unlawful FOIA fee schemes that led to the filing of a FOIA fee appeal in the local…See More