I see that "mom jeans" — that '90s look where the waistband of a woman's pants are up around her armpits — are back. Since I'm a guy, you probably expect me to say this is a terrible development in women's fashion, especially since they are replacing low-rise jeans. But you would be ...
While most of us would prefer school boards of education discuss things like improving test scores, modernizing teaching tools or reducing class sizes, reality sometimes gets in the way. Certainly it did this week in Hillman, where the board of education there dealt with an equally important ...
Diplomats in many other countries learned the secret to good relations with the United States years ago: Tell the Americans what they want to hear. So the small victory President Donald Trump has won in the so-called “trade war” he initiated needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Time ...
Maybe you’re tired of hearing about robotics lately. Too bad, I’m going to write about it anyway, but from a slightly different perspective. I was involved in the FIRST Robotics competition this past weekend because of the Chamber. We played a small role in the overall event by managing ...
Pictures and video footage of the aftermath of another chemical weapons attack blamed on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad are hard to take. No one likes to see innocent little children suffering. Some U.S. response to the atrocity, in which about 40 people died, is necessary. Most nations have ...
A few weeks ago while at my parents' house for dinner, my kids were watching a TV show. My son came out and asked me to fix the show because it stopped working. I went to see what the problem was and couldn’t help but laugh. A commercial was on. The show “stopped working” because it ...
Syrian President Bashar Assad is secure in his position, with the support of Russian military might. The Islamic State organization in Syria has been nearly wiped out. It is time for U.S. troops to be pulled out of the country. There is no good reason for the 2,000 or so of them in Syria ...
That huge collective sigh of relief you just heard bursting out of the capitol dome is the realization that the effort to create a part-time legislature is a total bust. Woo. That was close. Well actually it was not even close. Had you put pen to paper last May when Lt. Gov. Brian ...
Federal officials plan to spend $4.6 billion to battle the opioid addiction crisis this year. That represents a substantial new emphasis on dealing with a very real crisis. But is it enough? Drug abuse is killing about 42,000 people a year in the United States. Yet much more federal ...
Everywhere you went this week the conversation was but one thing — the weather. While snow of this week’s proportion is never wished for, it certainly is not unusual for Northeast Michigan. In 2003 the region received 17.8 inches of snow over a two-day period, and during the entire month ...
We have lots of news about negative things so I want to share a positive. I was invited to the Thunder Bay Junior High talent show last week and am so delighted that I went. First of all, hats off to all the kids who performed. They were all great. Just to be able to give their best in front ...
“Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel” is a phrase many have heard. Along with those ink purchases also comes large rolls of newsprint tonnage — after all those are the two key ingredients of reading your newspaper each morning. It is that newsprint which has publishers ...
This is not a “Letter to the Editor,” or to any of the good people who read the Alpena News. Rather, it is a letter aimed at all those people who would be customers of human traffickers. Human trafficking is a relatively polite term that is nothing less than slavery, torture, forced ...
Forty teams of students are in town for the FIRST Robotics district competition this weekend at Alpena High School. The teams, including several from Northeast Michigan, began arriving Thursday and had practice on Thursday evening. The competition got under way Friday and concludes today. The ...
We need a full investigation, including Trump testifying under oath. The list of survivors includes Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" in 2005. She accused Trump of kissing her against her will in New York in 2007 and later groping her at a Beverly Hills hotel after she ...
Do you love Jesus? For the world must be at war otherwise. Is it too simple to love each other as commanded? The Lord says “come to me.” Holy Week and Easter services are the most emotionally charged events of our Christian lives. We have seen the love our dear Savior has ...
When should the law bend to a higher moral authority? Was it in the 1960s when blacks were beaten and arrested for sitting at an all-white lunch counter when that was against the law? Is it now, when Attorney General Sessions and other Republicans call for defunding cities that provide ...
Welcome parents and students to Alpena and Bots on the Bay — the district competition in Alpena for FIRST Robotics. Over 1,000 participants and their families are expected to be in attendance today and Saturday for intense competition involving industrial design, mechanical engineering, ...
"The March.” Exercising one of your Constitutional Rights? A sign caught my eye, “21st Century Weapons 18th Century Laws.” It appears the un-thinking follower carrying that sign doesn't realize, the founders positively knew firearms and weapons would evolve. The weapons our founders had ...
Often in our society we focus on the negative things that politicians and public figures do. This isn’t entirely unfair since they did sign up for a job in the spotlight, however, I think it’s important that we give credit where credit is due. Jack Bergman is a retired Three Star General ...