On May 25th, I will see if I can still squeeze into my Navy uniform and join Memorial Day tributes with Michigan’s 462,000 veterans. Growing up in Alpena, my mind immediately reflects on Alpena’s Little Flanders Field. Across northeast Michigan’s four-county region, fellow veterans, ...
School Board President Eric Lawson and Monica Dziesinski's letters to the editor two weekends ago and quotes in the news article May 4,2026, defended their vote to award an asphalt contract to a higher bidder. I invite everyone to view the YouTube videos and read minutes of the 01/27/25 regular board meeting and the 02/10/25 workshop meeting. APS Competitive Bid Policy states “All orders or contracts should be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.” Payne & Dolan Bid - $681,400 Goodrich Bid - $713,950 Goodric’s alternative bid - $685,000 (still $3,600 higher and for a ...
Camelot, it's not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald Trump is a pretender president who doesn't even pretend to do right by the people. In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and museums, feels like a crime scene, with his fingerprints everywhere on it. Places we ...
Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of billions ...
A Republican, a Democrat and an Independent walk into a bar. The bartender asks what they want. The Republican and Democrat order some black label over-priced whiskey. The Independent just orders a glass of water. The discussion turns to politics, quiet at first, but grows into the Democrat ...
How long does it take you to set your table for meals? Do you reach into your cupboards and pull out what you need without moving a lot of other dishes? I’d like to explain an easy “one handed” method to make this job as simple as possible. Do you have two or three different types of ...
