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Opinion

February is Black History Month

Editorials and columns

Since 1976, every U.S. president, beginning with Michigan’s own President Gerald Ford, officially designated the month of February as Black History Month each year. Prior to a monthlong recognition, in February 1926, historian and author Carter Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a ...

Donald Trump’s four years of insanity starts

Letters to the Editor

President Biden is and was a better president on his worst day as opposed to Trump on his best. By the way, he never had a best. Proof: Biden was never convicted of 34 felonies, never convicted of sexual assault (the narrow definition of rape in New York saved him from a rape conviction), ...

His masterpieces

Editorials and columns

It was 1974, and as a student in Alpena Community College’s nursing program, every spare hour was spent studying. I was completely immersed in the complexities of the human body and the incredible way it works. Memorizing the names of the bones and internal organs and learning the processes ...

Will we exist only in flames after four years?

Letters to the Editor

Ladies! and Gentlemen! Please grab your seats it’s a lifetime ride! Republicans to the right democrats to the left! Everyone will be treated equally! (Snicker) If you are pregnant please sign the NDA agreement to avoid a fine and/or prison time if an early delivery occurs. Fear not women, ...

Retirement what you make of it

Editorials and columns

February is the month, it seems, that we Americans like to take an accounting of our lives. Of course, I’m not really sure what to make of that observation, or to read too much into that at all, since we also are the same folks who put our hopes for an early spring in the hands of a ...

Being fair and watching for fouls

Editorials and columns

I mentioned in a previous column that I did not wish, if possible, to know the identities of the players. I didn’t want to be biased knowing that number 45 was the son of a friend or that number 22 was the star. Of course, that was often not possible. And, once it worked to the ...