Opinion

School board should be unbiased

Letters to the Editor May 23, 2026

The purpose of serving on a school board is to govern with an unbiased perspective, keeping decisions focused with the best interest of students & the school system. It involves following established policy, respecting leadership and professional input from the superintendent, seeking legal advisement and making objective decisions without risking financial burden to the district. During my 20 year tenure as a board member on both the APS Board of Education and the AMA Intermediate School District, I was honored by the Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB) with an Award of ...

Bison are America's national mammal. Why are we pushing them off public land?

Editorials and columns May 23, 2026

My sister Erica and I returned to Montana just a few days after the Bureau of Land Management revoked grazing permits for bison. American Prairie, a nonprofit working to create one of the largest nature reserves in the United States, was the target of that decision. Erica and I bounced along ...

Demystifying the legislative process

Editorials and columns May 23, 2026

What follows has all the potential to be a wonderful insider look at how the legislative process "really" works. Not the one they taught you in your high school government/civic class. Our story begins with the launch this week with a call to revise the method for picking candidates for two ...

The AI CEO's are their own worst enemy

Editorials and columns May 23, 2026

Much of our rising energy costs comes from a decades-long campaign of progressive environmentalists and Democrat backed regulators to tear down coal-fired power plants, block nuclear and natural gas expansion and make America reliant on wind and solar -- the two power sources most popular ...

Education and success is important

Letters to the Editor May 23, 2026

I applaud the current school board we currently have. Despite the political witch hunt by a politically motivated group of people seeking a recall, the Alpena School Board is showing every day that the education and success of our students is the most important goal to them. They mentioned the Mississippi Miracle program, that brought Mississippi from the bottom of the test scores to near the top in just a couple of years. Michigan is 44th people, do you understand? Almost the bottom and Mississippi has passed us by. Why? The Mississippi Miracle...I urge EVERYONE to look this up ...

How science guides fishery management

Editorials and columns May 23, 2026

Science is the eyes and ears of fishery managers. Without science, managers would be groping in the dark as they try to solve resource problems and enhance fisheries. Let’s define what I mean by “science”. Dr. Greg Corace nicely summarized what science means in forest and wildlife ...