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LETTER TO THE EDITOR GUIDELINES

Letters to the Editor May 30, 2026

The Alpena News welcomes Letters to the Editor from residents in Northeast Michigan. These editorials are published weekly on Saturdays and can be found on A4 of our commentary section and The Alpena News website. Whether you’d like to comment on local politics, offer praise for a local organization and volunteers, or offer advice, letters are a great medium to do so. We invite all thoughts, concerns, ideas, and are tolerant of however people would like to express their opinions. However, we do not tolerate obscenities, threats, slander, and will not publish obvious examples of ...

The overweening pomposity of the old guard at CBS News

Editorials and columns May 30, 2026

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to ...

The California dream ends in empty reservoirs and homeless tents

Editorials and columns May 30, 2026

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and ...

Don't give in to darkness

Editorials and columns May 29, 2026

The lights and colors from the woods feed my spirit. Darkness can be depressing. Life combines light and dark, good and evil. I still have a hard time seeing an evil heart. I have never met a truly evil person. Think what it must take to convince a child or an adult to kill people they don’t ...

The collapse of late night -- and the opportunity ahead for Byron Allen

Editorials and columns May 29, 2026

The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the collapse of an era in American media where political outrage replaced entertainment, ideology replaced humor, and audiences were expected to applaud lectures ...

Duggan had a math problem

Editorials and columns May 29, 2026

The sojourn up to T.C. to squeeze in some quality holiday family time began uneventfully on Thursday to avoid the holiday traffic. About forty minutes in, the cell went off. Having forgotten to take it out of the trouser pocket, and remembering that Smoky was ticketing those who drive and ...