If President Musk and his DOGE team really want to root out waste, fraud and abuse within the Federal Government, I suggest they start by pink-slipping Congressman Jack Bergman and staff. Aside from not having held a constituent town hall for over eight years, they’ve delivered little to ...

So we now have a king who resides (temporarily) in the White House for four more years, unless HE decides to stay for four more years, who is not smart enough to realize that he is being played by a cunning former KGB agent, who wants to reduce the federal workforce force who he thinks do ...

A member of the Alpena Public Schools board recently proposed a change to school policy regarding the process used to respond to complaints. The complaints in this case seemed to be about certain books kept in the school libraries. The change would simply give three members of the board the ...

To the editor and readers of the Alpena News, I am writing to ask you to protect our nation’s economy from destruction by Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s illegal chainsaw cuts. To limit myself to 300 words, I won’t elaborate on how Trump has destroyed the U.S.’s name among the free ...

Politics, a noun sourced from the Greek ‘affairs of the city,’ is the set of activities associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. Politikos (Greek) means ‘Of the People.’ Therefore, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled against President Trump’s mandate of ending foreign aid. Former presidential candidate Sen. Ron Paul has advised that foreign aid is unconstitutional! If that’s the case, then how does the Supreme Court see it differently? President Lincoln said of the ...