Some folks think progress is always improving or enlarging, modernizing and upgrading something. I think progress sometimes is just keeping something special just as it is. I see the bureaucrats want to “improve,” develop, open up and expand Rockport State Recreation Area to produce the ...

In response to the letter to the editor from Diane O’Connor on Saturday, Oct. 19, Ms. O’Connor makes the likely inaccurate assumption that the people in favor of having only certain library books moved from the children’s section to adult section are the minority not the majority of our ...

Candidate one: Hope, peace, secure border, women’s health, voting rights, unity in the future. Candidate two: Misogynist, no respect, shifty, dangerous, unfit, chaos, bully, felon, narcissistic, “big lies” (a lie is a coward’s way of getting out of trouble). Fear mongering, ...

The Alpena County Central Dispatch Union would like to express our apprehension for the discussion of proposed cuts to the Alpena County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff and his department have worked diligently over the last several years to build their staffing to a level where they are able ...

Many years ago, school taught us reading, writing, arithmetic, history, thinking, reasoning, and common sense as just part of getting an education. While learning about simple economics, an instructor asked the question, “Who pays corporate taxes?,” and we were instructed to write and ...

The Oct. 16 issue of The Alpena News carried an opinion piece titled, “We need new school ideas,” by Molly Macek. She represents the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, an organization that advocates for limited government and free-market approaches to public policy. Macek suggests that ...