I am writing this letter to the editor to inform you how I was treated during a recent stay at MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena. I went to the emergency room at the hospital around 3 a.m. during the first weekend of December for unknown pain. Within an hour, I was being prepped for surgery to ...

Transformative, ambitious, and controversial aptly describes Michigan’s new renewable, clean energy legislation enacted last Nov. 28. Imagine. This new 100% clean energy mandate positions Michigan as a national energy leader. By 2040, only 17 years away, Michigan’s utilities will generate ...

As if the “audacious” demands that the United Auto Workers were putting upon the Detroit Three automakers during their recent strike weren’t ridiculous enough, we now have their president (Shawn Fain) stating that, if the auto corporations won’t pay for worker’s pensions, then the ...

Hello, winter. Snow people, sledding, snowboarding, snowshoeing, skiing, and that feeling of wonder all around us. Walks with loved ones and pets breathing in the “renewal” that only a snowfall can bring. Of course, there’s shoveling, plowing mountains of snow, cleaning the car and ...

Many pro-life organizations will remind Americans this weekend of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. This has resulted in known deaths of almost 66 million pre-born babies. Soldiers killed in the Civil War, World War I, and World War II totaled under 1.2 million, ...

The Jan. 9, 2024 edition of The Alpena News contained an editorial by Tim Skubick titled, “Gov. backs assault weapons ban.” Skubick quotes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as saying a ban on modern sporting rifles (MSRs) “... would be the right thing to do.” Whitmer further is quoted by Skubick ...