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Letter to the editor: Houghton County resolution is wrong

I’m writing to complain about the Houghton County Board of Commissioners’ Resolution 23-10 “Affirming Support of All Constitutional Rights” that was recently passed by a 4 to 1 vote. The resolution states, as if fact, that gun control laws “conflict” with Second Amendment rights. This is not true. Countless court precedents have already confirmed that gun control laws do not conflict with the U. S. Constitution. Many gun owners themselves favor gun control laws and see no such conflict. For a local governing body to make that claim as if it is an uncontested fact demonstrates ...

Faith perspective: Babies baffle biologists

The Bible teaches that until several centuries after the flood all people on Earth spoke the same language. The fact that many supposedly unrelated languages have similar sounding words with the same or similar meanings supports this teaching. Some language researchers say this is simply due to chance. Now some language researchers say that they have developed another line of research that supports the belief that all humans once spoke the same language. The ability to speak should not be taken lightly. We’re told that 70 different muscles and body parts are required. At a couple ...

Be polite

I’m 10 years old. I support Ukraine by going to local protests at the lift bridge with my dad and my younger brothers every Sunday. Most of the time it’s all fine. There are hundreds of people that support Ukraine, and during protests, there are people that honk and wave every week. Besides us, there are some other young children and very old people that come to the protests. And though many people honk and wave every week, once in a while, there would be one person or more that would be shouting and cursing at the protest while there were kids like me around. And something my dad ...

Publish and support real educators

Publishing Stephen Moore’s February 21 editorial entitled “It’s now or never for school choice everywhere” is irresponsible in today’s educational climate. Not only is Moore’s track record questionable in his own field of economics, he’s stepped far out of his lane to provide a misinformed diatribe about how to fix education in America. Moore seems oblivious to the fact that many of the “private and religious schools that have proven they know how to teach children” are very selective. Skimming off students with the best social support and the least cognitive and ...

Hats off to many

After a two-year hiatus the Finnish Theme Committee of Hancock, hosts of Heikinpäivä, wondered if we could once again rally the energy and community interest in another celebration. Rather than wonder, we put one foot in front of another and on the 28th of January we pulled off another great Mid-Winter festival. Our small and aging cadre of volunteers couldn’t have possibly done it alone, but the Copper Country, as well as friends from far and near, stepped up to make our Heikinpäivä festival a success. We want to extend a heartfelt Kiitos to everyone who lent support, ...

Nikki Haley in 2024

At last, we have a clear, definitive, sensible choice in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, a chance (maybe the only one) to restore our national and international political landscape to a sense of dignity, stability, respect, intellectual decisions, civility, as well as combating the disastrous decisions that have all but foundered our “Ship of State” upon calamitous shoals. I refer to Republican Nikki Haley, by far the most cerebral and qualified candidate for the White House in 2024. She is thoughtful, well-informed, experienced, strong enough to stand up to our ...