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Opinion

Reimagining the future of APS. together

Editorials and columns

I hope you will join me on Monday, November 17, and/or Wednesday, November 19, for an exciting and important dialogue about the future of Alpena Public Schools. Monday night is the Board of Education’s regularly scheduled Workshop meeting, and Wednesday night is a community forum. Both ...

The threat of an overproduced elite

Editorials and columns

Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore. Case in point, one of the most ...

County board meeting

Letters to the Editor

I’m writing this letter to address the Alpena County Commissions meeting about the County Campgrounds. The behavior I witnessed from Gerald Fournier and Gerald MacArthur was something I as a young adult, or anyone in that room shouldn’t have occurred. Tonight they voted on who would get to ...

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)

Letters to the Editor

Our American democracy will only work when we all believe it works, but the system seems to be increasingly broken. Many disillusioned voters around the country are turning to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), a simple change to the way we vote that we can adopt now. It levels the playing field for ...