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Let the voters decide

It didn’t surprise me when the news broke that Monica Dziesinski had hired an elite downstate law firm to influence the outcome of the school board recall campaign. It also didn’t surprise me that Eric Lawson joined her. After all, Lawson seems pretty comfortable with suppressing community voices. Isn’t this the same person who positioned deputies at school board meetings to remove people who dared to clap? And threatened defamation lawsuits against community members? What did surprise me was Sarah Costain. Members of the community gave me the impression that she is someone with ...

When elected officials answer citizens with attorneys

Alpena deserves to ask a serious question: How much of this are we expected to tolerate from an elected school board member? Monica Dziesinski was facing a citizen-led recall effort over her conduct and decisions as a member of the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education. Rather than simply allowing voters to have their say, she hired a downstate law firm that challenged recall petition signatures on technical legal grounds.But this goes beyond fighting a recall. I know that personally. After I publicly criticized Dziesinski’s actions as an elected official and encouraged ...

Concern about crash, Rogers City officials

On April 22nd, I was involved in a fender bender in the front of my house. After I backed out my driveway, I was struck by my neighbor's large truck backing out of his driveway. Causing over $5000 worth of damage to the side of my smaller truck. My neighbor called the police while I contacted my insurance office. The officer arrived and took our statements. No scene photos were taken of the sustained damage to either vehicle. No tickets were issued. I began picking up broken parts, including those to his broken tail light assembly. Then, my neighbor retrieved a broom and swept up the ...

Congress must stop proposed Head Start changes

Congress must immediately call on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind RFK Jr.’s proposed rules attacking Head Start and protect this vital program! Since his time in office, Kennedy has repeatedly undermined the well-being of our nation’s children, families and moms–the very population his department is tasked with serving and supporting. Now, instead of helping families, RFK Jr. is attacking Head Start, the nation’s important social and educational program for children, families, and communities, by proposing to eliminate most of the program's ...

Donald Trump’s solution

Big Numbers – Elon Musk, one single person, is worth more than one trillion dollars. $1,000,000,000,000.00. An unimaginable number that for our understanding equals one million, millionaires. Coming into office Donald Trump promised to deal with inflation and he has. He is now worth more than a billion dollars, or one thousand, millionaires. He has solved the inflation problem. He has now amassed so much wealth that he just doesn't have to care about inflation. How did they amass such wealth? Our government is broken. Donald Trump is in control. Divisive personal interests ...

To the wilderness I go

Like an uncertain lamb, newly born, I have wobbled my way through a rocky terrain of finding purpose again after a decade of secularism, atheism, and agnosticism. It’s interesting how deep the roots are for religious belief as once I returned to the garden to inspect the roots I had left, ...