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Letters to the Editor

Story of three coyotes, one wolf

About 12 to 14 years ago I was living north of what was called the Soo Line tracks on the Menominee River Bank in Faithorn. It was late December. During the night, we had gotten 3 to 4 inches of fresh wet snow. The morning was warm and the sun bright and cheery. I decided, the morning being ...

Federal workers deserve better than job limbo

Are federal employees being treated with the respect due to free men and women? I believe they are not. It appears to me they are being treated like indentured servants by a master that can legally threaten their economic security, withhold compensation, and require work without pay at his or ...

Democratic Party turning to socialism

Supporters of national Democrats such as Debbie Stabenow, Gary Peters and Tammy Baldwin are now supporting the radical left. The current group of Democrat presidential candidates, once moderate, are now on an apology tour retracting their beliefs of the past eight years. They all now believe in ...

Speak up to keep Title IX strong

As the public policy chairwoman of the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Branch of the American Association of University Women, a leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls, I have been acutely aware of the current attacks on Title IX. It is that awareness that inspires me to ...

Salvation Army plans extra food pantry visit

In response to a recent notification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services pertaining to individual’s receiving his/her SNAP benefit award amounts for February in January due to the government shutdown, individuals are asked to please budget those resources.   The ...

Reader asks: What led you to settle up north?

As one ages, that one’s body keeps an unending parade of medical surprises in store and reveals them at the content of the body and surely not the mind. That circumstance brought me to visit with my medical provider, a doctor in whom I have great satisfaction, but one who I do not often see ...