Stolen sign
Please pass this message along to the thief who stole our "Abdul for Senate" sign: You must not have much confidence in your candidate if you think stealing our sign is the only way he can win. Jerry and Jan Charter Presque Isle County
Czuba: Red flags everywhere
If you find yourself playing the Word-Trigger drinking game this weekend and you pick the term "red flag" you could be a bit tipsy after watching pollster Richard Czuba on Off the Record. Not once, not twice, not three times but four times Mr. Czuba uses the descriptive political term to ...
Response to ‘Honor Work, not wealth’
The Wednesday, September 9, 2026 edition of the Alpena News contained a guest column by Kathy Pelleran-Mahoney titled ‘Honor Work, not wealth’ in which she slammed the wealthy, the corporate world, tax rates, and capital gains from investments. The short bio at the end of the article identifies her as someone who retired after a five-decade career in public service. In other words, taxpayers supported her for 50 years. She doesn’t like the wealthy or corporate tax rules. She doesn’t acknowledge that corporate taxes are largely paid by consumers. Taxes supply the slush funds ...
Mountains, molehills, and motivations
Roadless Rule. It was controversial a quarter century ago and it appears that it remains so. The “environmental” PACs are coming-out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. First, most of the Roadless Area (a federal designation) lies in a handful of western states, and half of that probably would not be considered as forests, at least from a visual standpoint. Not that unforested lands haven’t ecological and other values. They do. However, if one adopts a forestland ...
The rule of law cannot be based upon 'feelings'
One of the primary tenets of the American legal system is the importance of precedent; the common law doctrine of "stare decisis" means "to stand by things decided." The purpose of law in such a system is to provide stability and predictability, so that people can conform their conduct to the ...
Congress out on recess again!
Summer is over, the kids are back in school and will be in class nearly every Monday through Friday except for a few days at Thanksgiving until their Holiday break over Christmas and New Years, totaling about 75 days until 2027. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives in Washington took off ...