Disappointed by demolition

January 9, 2024

Here are my thoughts on the building tear down at 1202 Memorial Road in Houghton: No part of the former Hardee’s building was saved to be recycled. It all went to the dump. I saw glass structural pieces and cooking appliances as well as heating and cooling equipment. Maybe it was cheaper to let the wrecking ball do the job, but in this day and age, recycling is the right thing to do. How about contacting the city, which, because it enacted a tear down ordinance, could consider if a building, or part of it, might be recycled? Allan Baker Houghton

Faith Perspective: Is racism about skin color?

January 5, 2024

Racism is so stupid that its claims of an unchangeable reality of unbridgeable chasms can be shattered in a few words. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In 1963, Martin Luther King also brilliantly said: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their ...

International outrage misplaced

November 29, 2023

Is anyone else sick of pro-Hamas propaganda and rhetoric being spouted forth in anti-Israeli demonstrations across our country and around the world? I sure hope you are! In the wake of the hideous 10/7 massacre of innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists, multitudes of people around the world have risen up in support of the terrorists, instead of the victims of the terrorist attack. As rockets continue to be fired into Israel, and protesters engage in antisemitic chants such as “Free Palestine from the river to the sea,” Israelis are forced to take decisive action against ...

The Media Research Center is disinformationist

November 28, 2023

Tim Graham and Brent Bozell who are funded by the elite like the Mercers, corporations and other individuals who want to deceive the average voters who are not aware of the background and motives of this disinformationist organization, that lives off of the money they are funded, will say anything that they are told to print! As Rupert Murdoch said in a Florida courtroom when sued by two of his reporters who were told to re-write a story: It is my First Amendment right to lie! If you haven’t read Manufactured Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, you will see, but probably ...

Faith Perspective: God gives us free will, we put it to use

October 27, 2023

All the bad things happening to people around the world is not God’s fault. There is absolutely no reason to believe God wants these things to happen. There is sin in the world. Why is there sin in the world? Free will. Do you want God to take our free will away? Do you want to be a robot only doing what you are programmed to do? Is that true living? Maybe you want God just to take away free will for some people and not others? How would that work exactly? Does God kill every murderer or does He also kill the person who is thinking of murdering someone? What happens when YOU ...

Musings on migration

October 2, 2023

As we prepare to migrate from Isle Royale, where we have spent the past 5 months, these thoughts occur to me: 1) My “family” has been the network of people connected by our National Park Service radio. Each morning there’s a weather report, and throughout the day we hear where park staff are traveling in boats. Mostly, it’s silent, and yet we feel a sense of community and connectedness. Also, in that silence is the opportunity to listen to the wind, the waves, and, with luck, migrating birds, rutting moose, otters, and wolves. It is easy to be happy here. 2) In town, my ...