The League of Women Voters is partnering with Promote the Vote 2022 on a common sense ballot proposal that would amend our state constitution to: ∫ Allow nine days of early voting ∫ Publicly subsidize absentee ballots and a tracking system for the ballot location ∫ Continue to allow ...

Our Animal Control Officer, Michelle Reid, has a proven history. With her efficiency, compassion and management skills she has greatly improved the fate of what happens to unwanted and stray animals. That is why I think her vision of repurposing the old jail for a needed larger facility is ...

Watching too many weird commercials on TV is a waste of my time, however the Lexus ad on the topic of time was impressionable. Most of us want more time as we never have enough of it. My time was almost up when I fell overboard into Lake Huron, miles from shore without a life preserver. I ...

How noble of The Alpena News to report the amount of tax revenue collected from the sale of recreational marijuana and returned to various nearby municipalities, which goes along with your “good idea” endorsement of the city ordinance to permit such sales in specified areas within city ...

Do the Federal and State Legislators ever talk to one another before they pass a bill? The U.S. Senate passed a bill recently to make Daylight Savings Time Permanent, pending by the House, and then the Goons signature! The Michigan State Legislators tried that many years ago only to rescind it ...

Black History month just finished and Women’s History month has begun. Mildred Fay Jefferson is a name not mentioned last month by Black Lives Matter supporters and will probably be missing from any program touting the wonderful deeds performed by women, some against great odds. As a child, ...