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In response to the recent Duck Park cartoon

I was dismayed by the “cartoon” in Saturday’s paper. It suggested, rather bluntly, that the proposed Thunder Bay River Center (TBRC) would depreciate the value of Duck Park and the adjoining Wildlife Sanctuary (where the supposedly impacted ducks reside). TBRC is a project supported not only by the environmental organizations in Northeast Michigan but by numerous people throughout the five counties who live in the watershed. These gifts of nature are limited and once gone can never be restored. Northeast Michigan’s natural resources demand that each of us learn how to care for ...

Just a simple question: How many is enough?

Why is it that physical torture to animals brings protests and sympathy but some of those same caring people support torture called abortion to pre-born babies? What is it that brings out verbal hatred from Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters and others toward nonprofit pregnancy centers where pregnant women can receive free health, employment, parenting, mentoring and counseling assistance? What is it about free services to women in possible crisis pregnancies that cause people to show their hate by firebombing the buildings, write death ...

Greg Awtry’s recent column was a timely gem

Greg Awtry’s column in your Jan. 6 Alpena News (“Is that any way to run a country?”) was a timely gem! It appears to be what a number of the holdouts in the U.S. House of Representatives were asking. When will we get more leaders and leadership with the guts to put the country ahead of personnel gain? Years ago, I became personally involved with the Tea Party movement because of what our immediate former U.S. comptroller general and former CEO of the U.S. Accountability Office (GAO), David M. Walker had been constantly writing and warning us about: Our nation’s debt and ...

Some questions about the current America

We don’t let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies that they regulate? Why is it when archeologists find human remains, they always determine they are either male or female? Why is it that so many were outraged that Brittany Griner was stuck in Russia than they were about Americans being stranded in Afghanistan? How is it the government can’t control gasoline prices, but the weather is something they can fix? Why were we told to lower our air conditioning usage on hot days to prevent overloading the electric grid ...

Speak out on Biden’s impending ‘death tax’

This may be a bad time of the year to write this, but it is very essential that the public flood their representatives in January with letters and/or postcards demanding that they vote down this proposed draconian tax bill called the “Death Tax.” This is critical information from Mr. Jim Martin, founder of the 60 Plus Association. This tax that Joe Biden is trying to sneak into law will affect many more families than the current tax policy, which is bad enough already. This new tax, if imposed on the public, is a punishing tax levied on a person’s entire estate when they pass ...

Why is the media silent on crypto scandal?

The Alpena News reporting has been relatively silent on the FTX cryptocurrency scandal headed up by Sam Bankman-Fried, the second leading donor to the Democratic Party in 2022. Judd Garrett in his Objectivity is the Objective essay on Dec. 14, 2022 had the following to say about the media and the FTX scandal. “Did anybody in the media ask Sam Bankman-Fried one hard question? Isn’t this a little bit like the way we are handling our current President? How many journalists in the mainstream media ask Joe Biden a hard question? How many journalists in the mainstream media challenge ...