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Opinion

The coaching tree

Editorials and columns

March is undoubtedly one of the most exciting times of the year for any sports fan. March Madness with the college basketball tournament is all-consuming. From the fanfare of Selection Sunday to playing 67 basketball games to get one final champion who endured all the ups and downs, there just ...

An America of privilege financed by poverty

Letters to the Editor

Veterans and V.A. employees. Fisheries and Wildlife biologists. National parks workers. Firefighters. Middle-class federal employees who guarantee that Social Security checks go out on time and that rural hospitals and clinics receive the Medicare payments that keep their doors open. All of ...

Keep Michigan DOE tax dollars in Michigan

Letters to the Editor

The Wednesday, March 12, edition of the Alpena News contained a commentary column “Protect Schools From Cuts” authored by Alexandra Stamm of the Michigan League for Public Policy. Ms. Stamm was complaining about the expected funding cuts to the budget of the federal Department of Education ...

Congress must reject plans to dismantle DOE

Letters to the Editor

The U.S. Congress must reject President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and undermine the foundation of public education in this country. We have witnessed countless attacks on public education at the hands of this president and his ...

Pink-slipping Congressman Jack Bergman

Letters to the Editor

If President Musk and his DOGE team really want to root out waste, fraud and abuse within the Federal Government, I suggest they start by pink-slipping Congressman Jack Bergman and staff. Aside from not having held a constituent town hall for over eight years, they’ve delivered little to ...

Considering all options for federal workforce

Letters to the Editor

So we now have a king who resides (temporarily) in the White House for four more years, unless HE decides to stay for four more years, who is not smart enough to realize that he is being played by a cunning former KGB agent, who wants to reduce the federal workforce force who he thinks do ...