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Letters to the Editor

JD Vance wrong on teachers without children

To the editor, JD Vance’s angry, hurtful comments that teachers who don’t have children “disorient and really disturb” him are consistent with his long history of attacking families and public schools. Teachers, teacher aides, paraprofessionals, school nurses, bus drivers, cafeteria ...

Donald Trump would take away all freedoms

Donald Trump plans to release the wrath of God upon us all in his desire to stay in power and stay out of prison if he is ever reelected. He has personally declared his desire to benefit through full use of retribution in his control of the U.S. governmental offices and the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Trump should be ashamed of ‘accomplishments’

Donald Trump accomplishments: 2.9 million jobs lost (allowing for COVID-19). Trade deficit grew by 40.5%. Dairy farmers went belly up. People without health insurance grew by 3 million. Federal debt rose from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion (great job, Don). Annual deficits rose from ...

County must find another way to raise money

I’m writing about the county Board of Commissioners putting the tax increase on the ballot. It is not the people’s fault that the county is broke (due to poor decision making). The commissioners gave raises and have been helping out Northern Lights when it was voted 25 years ago for them ...

2025 state budget funds an American dream

Recently, the State of Michigan passed the 2025 budget for our state and among the variety of actions that this budget funded was support for a dream. That dream makes possible FREE community college education. As an educator that started his college experience in a community college and for ...

Partisans in a nonpartisan school board race

Dear Editor: IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN … This past week, on a personal podcast, a political party offered monies to support candidates for the school board election in November. The source of that funding is the same source as from the last school board election. We all know the results ...