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Opinion

Let The School Board Do Their Job

Letters to the Editor

Why do teachers/retired teachers care so much about bids for snow removal, paving of parking lots, bids to service toilets, policies for media usage, etc. Isn't that the School Board’s job? DISTRACTION. They are trying to DISTRACT the voters/parents/students away from the real issues at ...

Protect Our Roadless Spaces

Letters to the Editor

I think we can all take comfort in the fact that we have protected natural spaces in the United States, mandated to be free from roads and from timber harvest. This protection comes from a piece of legislation called the Roadless Rule. A rare protection of the wild world. In June of this ...

Building a healthy community

Letters to the Editor

Back to basics: Supporting families and building the community. Kelli Vanderburg’s commentary in the Alpena News on September 24 was enlightening. She reminds us of the importance of building a stable and healthy environment for our children, so they can build their own foundation to advance ...

Veteran suicides should shock everyone

Editorials and columns

A page 1A story in Wednesday’s Mining Journal should have shocked all who read it: in a nutshell, the piece underscored the fact that 17 veterans each day die by suicide in this country. That’s more than 6,000 per year, for those readers wondering about the math. Considering that all ...

The Left’s Triple Threat to Free Speech

Editorials and columns

Jimmy Kimmel's return to the nation's airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media. If Johnny Carson had gone on air after the murder of John F. Kennedy and said, "We hit some new lows this weekend with the Democrat gang trying to characterize this ...

When the Good — and Bad — Ends and Begins

Editorials and columns

Summer's lease hath all too short a date, said Shakespeare, and ain't that the truth. The cicadas are still singing, but they won't be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. The garden knows it too. The last batch of bright zinnias displays its ...