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Letters to the Editor

Please, do your research before you vote

Before you make a decision and vote for school board members — between now and November 8--research the options carefully. Are your candidates committed to attending at least two in-person evening meetings each month, and will they come to each meeting prepared and ready to learn, discuss, ...

Politicians need to work for the people again

How did politicians’ views become so extreme? ‘We The People’ have literally turned over our country’s democratic future to politicians and the oligarchy who can buy, well, a Supreme Court! Perhaps this ethical breakdown we are experiencing started when corporations became ...

Vote Hansen, B. Heath, MacArthur, Pena

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 ...

Vote no on Prop 3 and show your humanity

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 ...

On the recycling increase in PI County

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 ...

Hail to the Queen; may God rest your soul

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 ...