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Greg Awtry’s recent column was a timely gem

Greg Awtry’s column in your Jan. 6 Alpena News (“Is that any way to run a country?”) was a timely gem! It appears to be what a number of the holdouts in the U.S. House of Representatives were asking. When will we get more leaders and leadership with the guts to put the country ahead of personnel gain? Years ago, I became personally involved with the Tea Party movement because of what our immediate former U.S. comptroller general and former CEO of the U.S. Accountability Office (GAO), David M. Walker had been constantly writing and warning us about: Our nation’s debt and ...

Some questions about the current America

We don’t let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies that they regulate? Why is it when archeologists find human remains, they always determine they are either male or female? Why is it that so many were outraged that Brittany Griner was stuck in Russia than they were about Americans being stranded in Afghanistan? How is it the government can’t control gasoline prices, but the weather is something they can fix? Why were we told to lower our air conditioning usage on hot days to prevent overloading the electric grid ...

Speak out on Biden’s impending ‘death tax’

This may be a bad time of the year to write this, but it is very essential that the public flood their representatives in January with letters and/or postcards demanding that they vote down this proposed draconian tax bill called the “Death Tax.” This is critical information from Mr. Jim Martin, founder of the 60 Plus Association. This tax that Joe Biden is trying to sneak into law will affect many more families than the current tax policy, which is bad enough already. This new tax, if imposed on the public, is a punishing tax levied on a person’s entire estate when they pass ...

Why is the media silent on crypto scandal?

The Alpena News reporting has been relatively silent on the FTX cryptocurrency scandal headed up by Sam Bankman-Fried, the second leading donor to the Democratic Party in 2022. Judd Garrett in his Objectivity is the Objective essay on Dec. 14, 2022 had the following to say about the media and the FTX scandal. “Did anybody in the media ask Sam Bankman-Fried one hard question? Isn’t this a little bit like the way we are handling our current President? How many journalists in the mainstream media ask Joe Biden a hard question? How many journalists in the mainstream media challenge ...

No question that Berriman should keep post

This letter is being written to support the actions of Tom Berriman - principal of Ella White school. I am a graduate of the Alpena School system and I believe in rules and boundaries. If a child is on the floor throwing a tantrum and disturbing others around them, then a supervising individual should have the right to contain the child and teach them the difference between right and wrong. From the stories in the news, Mr. Berriman rightfully picked the child up and took him into an isolated area where he could talk to the child and calm him down. This is what any adult and mentor ...

Council made the right decision on fluoride

It was the best news in a long time to see that the City Council determined they were not qualified to continue with adding a known toxic substance to the city water. One must only look at the bags of fluoride on the front page of The Alpena News with skull and crossbones on the bags in clear sight. I am glad to see the bags of toxic stuff from China will no longer be added to the water supply system. Why wait until May? The decision is made! The problem with the bags is that they cannot go to the local, but dump but to a level 4 toxic dump site. RICHARD OLREE, Hillman