On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...
I consider myself a man of routines. Others, unfortunately, have called me a creature of habits. Obviously one of those descriptions is positive, the other not so much. I will let those of you who know me well have the final say as to which is more accurate. Harry Truman had a sign in ...
Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade ...
I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam ...
What podcast do you listen to? Who’s your go-to person when you want to find information? These two questions are pretty common for people today in the modern podcast era. There are all sorts of podcasts that are out there, ranging from historical podcasts to political podcasts to ...
The Alpena News welcomes Letters to the Editor from residents in Northeast Michigan. These editorials are published weekly on Saturdays and can be found on A4 of our commentary section and The Alpena News website. Whether you’d like to comment on local politics, offer praise for a local organization and volunteers, or offer advice, letters are a great medium to do so. We invite all thoughts, concerns, ideas, and are tolerant of however people would like to express their opinions. However, we do not tolerate obscenities, threats, slander, and will not publish obvious examples of ...
