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Adjusting priorities to help out taxpayers

I am writing this out of concern for the actions of the city council and Target Alpena. Why do they think it is appropriate to give acreage to a developer for $1, then abate the taxes on the property, 90% for 20 years? This is not being done for the average citizen of Alpena, when the lowest-priced unit is projected to be approximately $5,000 per month. We already have two wonderful facilities in town in Besser Senior Living and Turning Brook, which operate in the same business model with similar pricing. These facilities advertise a six-month waiting list but regularly have vacancies ...

How, as Americans, will our story read?

How will it end? As we have watched from the sidelines for three years now the situation in Ukraine has gripped the hearts of Americans in a surprisingly intimate way. It’s like a story that sounds vaguely familiar to each of us, but we can’t really remember why … we can’t quite put our finger on it. It’s a story that begins something like this: “When in the Course of human Events it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them to another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which ...

The whole world is watching in disgust

For all of my life, America has been the leader of the free world. America along with the other democratic countries fought and defeated Hitler’s attempt to dominate the world. America’s leadership was instrumental in a post-war rebuild of Europe to ensure free world stability. America led the free world opposing Soviet efforts to expand their autocratic/dictatorial influence and control around the world. Ronald Reagan (1988 State of the Union Address) proudly spoke of America, the “Shining City on a Hill.” America became that, more so, because of our aid to nations in need, our ...

America’s first Sovereign Head of State

In the world of absolute power, Donald J. Trump found his “mark” in the GOP and he has it made. He and his family live above the law with no restrictions and operate on their own personal behalf now worth hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars. Acting as President Donald J. Trump and his GOP now control all three branches of the national government: The Executive, Judicial, and Congressional. The only remaining possible resistance to his power are the public officials in administrative offices at all levels of government: Federal, State, and Local. Donald J. Trump’s solution to this ...

Health care as a whole often presents issues

To further explain my experience within the health care system. By no means am I disparaging any one individual but the system as a whole. I must repeat a major factor or problem with health care is insurance companies. To an extreme, a health care facility may choose to attribute your illness to COVID for example, when you are presented with a gunshot wound only because the reimbursement is better with a COVID diagnosis. Again to the extreme. There was a time when you would enter the ER, an MD would see you, run some tests, and admit you if he/she deemed it necessary for you to get ...

Oppose embracement of Russia, autocracy

After decades of bi-partisan opposition to Russian aggression, including three years of bi-partisan support for Ukraine in their fight against Putin’s latest attempt to take over their country, Trump appears to be treating Russia as an ally. The despicable attack by Trump and Vance against President Zelenskyy on Feb. 28 and the ensuing “pause” of military support and intelligence sharing are acts of betrayal of an ally in favor of a regime that can’t be trusted and is an enemy of America. Trump’s disdain for NATO and the UN is well documented and joining with other ...