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Not American values to deport sick children

EDITOR: It’s not enough to cage immigrant children on the Texas border. Now we have the irony — remembering that Jesus was on Earth 33 years — of requiring severely ill, undocumented immigrant children to leave the country in 33 days. It seems the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service no longer will permit the previous two-year legal deferral of removal of children with serious medical conditions. National Public Radio reports Boston Children’s Hospital, a premier medical facility, has immigrant children who will die without specialized medical care they cannot obtain in their ...

Too soon for deer baiting ban

I must comment on the regional baiting ban the state has put in place. First, there was “one” deer found with chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in Dickinson County. Then during rifle season, they tested 1,700 more deer in this area — nothing found. This ban does not have to happen at this time, unfounded. This could have been decided far down the road if more cases were found. This is not going to go down well; it will hurt many people, hunters and business people. Now, when I started hunting at 14 in 1959, there was no such thing as “baiting” — there were not even any ...

Can’t change what God laid out in DNA

EDITOR: This past March, the suspect in a double murder from 1976 was identified through scientific analysis of DNA left at the crime scene. Results of the analysis of the DNA indicated the suspect was a male who had ancestry from northern Europe, had fair to very fair skin, blue eyes, reddish-brown hair and freckles. That is an amazingly detailed description of a person, all derived from analysis of a person’s DNA. The DNA revealed the immutable traits inherent to the person to whom they belong, and the person identified as the subject matched those descriptors. Such results are ...

The other side of the same coin

An Aug. 7 Letter to the Editor talked about the downfall of the Democratic Party. Allow me to use the same format as in that letter, with a few changes: “I wonder how many people understand that we no longer have a ‘Republican Party.’ The Trump/white supremacist wing of the Republican Party has taken over. The moderate members that are still there are afraid of him/them and do not speak up — cowards. These people are hell-bent on destroying the America I love and am proud of. They demean our country every day on the news; the fake-White House sanctioned/advisors station, Fox ...

Don’t move that mailbox

It has been brought to my attention that members of our community are being asked to move their mailbox from where it currently sits. As a retiree of the U.S. Postal Service, this concerns me and I feel the need to make the public aware of their rights. Regulations make it very clear that property owners are in control of where they receive their mail. If you are being asked to change the location, you must agree to this conversion in writing. Should you not agree, it is your right to keep the mailbox as is. If a residence is sold, the mailbox should not be moved prior to the new ...

Pensions real reason DCHS seeking $25M

In my opinion, Dickinson County Healthcare System’s financial woe fiasco is nothing but an orchestrated train wreck. The evasive responses I have received from DCHS on my Freedom of Information Act requests have only confirmed my suspicions the financial dilemma was created and manufactured to fund the pensions. Let me explain: Ultimately, when the lawsuit filed by the union workers at DCHS winds its way through the legal system, they shall prevail because Michigan state Constitution protects their pensions. Then the entity known as DCHS will have to come up with the money to fund the ...