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Congress, you must act on Ukraine aid now

I wonder how many Ukrainians died last night defending themselves against Vladimir Putin’s honde of conscripts, convicts, and mercenaries. How many women were raped and how many children were kidnapped and taken to live in Putin’s vile paradise. But, more than anything, I wonder how long a confederacy of dunces in the American Congress will deny aid (ammunition) to the Ukrainians under the guise of an “America First” policy. The policy is based on the cynical political assumption that Americans are too confused to see that Ukraine’s battle against Russian barbarism is an ...

Swedish flag up at NATO delightful vision

Tomorrow and Monday, Vladimir Putin will be celebrating another tainted victory from another sham presidential election in Russia, and he will be all smiles for the cameras. However, can you just imagine how mad he was when NATO HQ raised the Swedish flag in Brussels last Monday? Not sure how many shades of red there are, but Putin must have used them all in his fit of anger when Sweden joined the alliance. What a delightful vision indeed! MIKE DOTSCH, Alpena

Why does Jack Bergman keep telling lies?

U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman said after President Joe Biden released his $7.3 trillion budget that it cuts essential funding for the new Soo Lock and raises taxes on Americans. This is not true and Jack knows it, so why does he keep telling us lies? Biden’s release of his budget blueprint includes $ 2 billion total for the Army Corps construction projects, including $264.1 million for the work underway to build a replacement lock in the Soo, which Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael L. Connor called a “very high priority project for the ...

Women no longer must have supporting role

When I was a young girl, my mom and I watched movies together with a wide range of those showing women as support to the hero. You know them: Tarzan and Jane, Roy Rogers and Dale Evens, and so on … then came “Xena, Warrior Princess,” “Wonder Woman,” and Princess Leia. But, even then, there were real-life women heroes for girls, young women and old to look up to, to emulate, and to follow in their chosen fields of work. Contributions by women to history are numerous: Cleopatra, pharaoh of Egypt; Joan of Arc, martyr and military leader; Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone indigenous ...

The April 8 eclipse will be worth some travel

A solar eclipse will occur over the United States on Monday, April 8. While most Americans will get to see a partial eclipse without needing to go farther than their own front yard, only those within the narrow “path of totality” will experience the full, spectacular show. People in Alpena will see the moon slowly cover 90% of the afternoon sun. Here, the light of day will feel oddly dim, tree branches will cast strange crescent shadows on the ground, and the temperature will drop a few degrees. You’ll need protective glasses to look directly at the sickle-shaped sun, even just ...

Judges show us their biases on immigration

Dear editor: I think our forefathers goofed when they made federal judges the right to rule. As you know they are appointed and not elected! The ambiguity and biased rulings of some is disgraceful like this recent ruling on the border. About 10 years ago, a California proposal was passed overwhelmingly by the voters that no tax money of any kind shall be spent on illegal aliens. A federal judge ruled that proposal unconstitutional because the Constitution states that only the federal government shall decide on immigration. OK, I have no problem with that as the law is the law. So now ...