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What Good is America? TO THE EDITOR: Following are five specific ways in which America encourages good in today's dark and dying world. 1. Defending human dignity and fighting oppression America's foreign policies are often shaped by a desire to defend the vulnerable against tyranny. Whether fighting against Nazi Germany during World War II, combating modern-day human trafficking, attempting to dismantle the global slave trade, or defending our country's borders, the U.S. has played, and continues to play, a central to advance freedom. 2. Promotion of religious freedom ...

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Editor: Our family would like to thank everyone that walked through the doors of LeBlanc Sales and Service and continued their trust in our family as we became employees of Northland, Lawn & Sport. For 25 years we were able to help put the right equipment into your hands and helped to keep it running right. There is no possible way to explain just how much we have appreciated your support throughout these 25 years. Trusting us with your lawn and snow removal needs means more to our family than you know. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with all of you. May you all. have ...

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Who are we? When I was 20 years old, I fell in love for a while with a man from Ethiopia. Despite, perhaps because of, our outward differences, we were amazed to find that our dreams for the world were identical. We were contemplating marriage until he told me of some of his traditions that were just too different for me to embrace. Social media enabled us to re-connect last year. He recently retired from his job as a sociology professor in Addis Ababa, and, like me, he has been happily married for more than fifty years. Three of his children live in the United States. It seems to ...

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Houghton County Board Editor: It seems our commissioners do what they please with our tax dollars: the purchase of the church property on Sharon Ave without any public input. Now they want to spend more money to tear it down without any public input. Is there any sense to this with this kind of government? Why do we need them or why do they us except for a check book? Maybe they need to resign if they can't do the job. William Wakeham Atlantic Mine

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Editor: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! "Patrick Henry spoke these words (Virginia Convention, 1775), but the orator just as well might be a Ukrainian viewing the latest "peace-plan" "contrived"( I do not use this word lightly ) with all the negative connotations that may be attached therein to a word often derived to mean "scheme." Russia's nefarious treacheries heaped upon Ukraine every violent act imaginable: invasion, destruction, rape, mass-murder, kidnapping, peace-seeking Ukrainians put to ...

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Keweenaw International Children's Festival Editor: The board of the Elaine Bacon Literacy Program would like to thank the many international and local people and organizations who made Saturday's first ever Keweenaw International Children's Festival at the Portage Lake District Library a huge success! The library was jam packed for hours as children and their parents milled around listening and dancing to stories, songs, and folk music from around the world. The children created crafts and saw beautiful displays of many cultures, among them Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Saudi ...