Over the last several years we have witnessed a slow decline and erosion of our schools within the community we live. There has seemingly been a lack of transparency and parents’ concerns are going unheard. We as a community need to stand up and stand together to restore trust once again in ...

This November voters will have a chance to show their humanity by voting “no” on Proposal 3 that would allow abortion (killing) of babies at any stage before birth. Whether it’s five seconds before birth or five minutes after birth, supporters of abortion want the right to take the life ...

Whoa, hold on, wait a minute, WTF, as they say. Presque Isle County voters just approved an increase in millage to pay for recycling. Now, I see an ad in the local paper that (they) want to charge those same voters to collect electronics. How stupid do (they) think (we) are? Those electronics ...

Queen Elizabeth II was my Queen just as much as any British born citizen. As a young boy in 1952 and a 3rd grader at Brooklands Elementary School in Rochester, Michigan, I had the great pleasure of witnessing the coronation of “the World’s Queen Elizabeth II.” On that day our school ...

Why does Alpena need a community pool? Why can’t we just “shut it down?” 1. It provides swim lessons for the safety of our citizens. In 2019, the last nonCOVID/twelve-month year, approximately 302 group lessons and 474 private lessons were given by certified lifeguards in the Plaza ...

Too often, people think of child care as a “personal issue” — as in an individual personal problem to solve. But the pandemic laid bare the truth we already knew: The crisis working families are facing is not due to personal failings, but is a larger, systemic problem that needs larger ...