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Letters to the Editor

Looking for affirmation

To the editor: Joe Scarborough said that many of us look to news for affirmation, not information. This struck me, because I’m afraid we only believe what we want to believe, and we only hear what we want to hear.  This could be dangerous, if we accept misinformation and lies to bolster ...

Regarding the manifesto

To the editor: For the record concerning the Baraga County manifesto signed by our local elected officials: MDHHS restrictions related to COVID-19 (based on 1918 Spanish Flu enacted state laws) have not been ruled unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court. And here is what the last ...

Salute to school board members

To the editor: As a local school board member, can you imagine getting an email at 11:30 p.m. on the evening of Thursday March 12 from your district superintendent letting you know your state Governor has just ordered all K-12 school closed beginning Monday, March 16, due to what was to ...

What is the answer?

To the editor: Our elected officials, Rep. Jack Bergman and State Rep. Greg Markkanen, are representing a segment of their constituent’s concerns regarding possible “voting irregularities” in our November election, but they are not representing me nor a large bulk of their citizens who ...

Send in the clowns

To the editor: Why so much unrest and such turmoil? Why so little trust in one another? Why such widespread angst? Why the quick retreat into warring factions? History teaches us that humans don’t respond well to being rendered increasingly irrelevant. Post WWI German economic despair ...

A matter of censorship

To the editor: It has come to my attention lately that the Daily Mining Gazette editor has declined printing material that questions the current lockdown protocols and coronavirus narrative. This represents the same kind of censorship that has been unleashed on the American public by the ...