The US House of Representatives just voted along party lines for the Debt Ceiling Bill. That means that our Representative Jack Bergman voted to cut funding for our Veterans. Jack would rather cut benefits for our veterans than raise taxes on the rich 1%. Jack is always saying he is fighting ...

Fifty years of legal precedent and the United States Constitution all violated in a national policy of religious discrimination. It is now left up to the “individual states” or, should we say, separate countries how they will discriminate against women: Forced rape, incest, miscarriage, ...

In response to Anne Gentry’s piece in the April 28 edition of The Alpena News on the importance and value of public libraries (with which we agree wholeheartedly, as did, e.g., the ancient Egyptians, see the Library at Alexandria), we focus on one sentence near the beginning of her column: ...

The citizens of Alpena County, Michigan deserve more than the ‘bare minimum’ required by the state for animal control. We currently have what the state is envisioning for the future of Animal Control Officer departments. What we do not have is adequate space needed. There are numerous ...

I am writing this letter to express my objections to the shutting down of the addition of fluoride to the city’s potable drinking water. This is a huge step backward, because it was done for 50-70 years and now it will no longer be the case. So what you are saying is the whole thing was a ...

Where did mankind ever get the idea that we could legislate abortion? CARL KELLY, Alpena