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Letters to the Editor

Recall effort moves forward

On March 2nd school board members Eric Lawson, Sarah Costain and Monica Dziesinski attended a hearing for a determination of the factuality and clarity of the proposed language on the petitions for recalling these three from their school board positions. Due to space limitation, the petition ...

The speculation game

One of the most popular indoor sports in this town requires no physical training. Any number of folks can play and generally nobody gets injured although at times playing the game has damaged some political careers. We're talking about the "who is running for what office? or if you prefer it's ...

Want to save grassland birds? Start with prairie dogs.

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America's Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America's largest land mammal is, the pipsqueak of the prairie piqued my interest and stole my heart, and I'm not the only ...

Rejecting the rain garden was rejecting the grant!

I am writing in response to statements made during the recent factuality and clarity recall hearing regarding the language used to describe the rain garden issue. During that hearing, Monica Dziesinski, along with Eric Lawson and Sarah Costain, objected to the characterization that they voted ...

Response to recall

These views are my own and not necessarily those of the board or my colleagues. When it comes to Alpena Public Schools Board of Education, I vote with common sense and fiscal responsibility, and FULLY stand by the three votes that a small group is trying to recall me for. The decisions for ...

We must be honest with ourselves about Iran

The end of the Ayatollah, a man at the forefront of a regime that financially supports international terrorism, that brutally represses dissidents, that subsidizes the Chinese economy with petrochemicals at a discount, is a step in the right direction for democratic societies across the ...