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More Money for Schools? Yes, Please! Editor: As a proud Hancock resident, I believe deeply in the power of a strong public education system. After decades of disinvestment, Michigan schools remain underfunded, needing an additional $4.5 billion just to be able to give every student the education they need and deserve. In 2025 our students' literacy and math outcomes reflect exactly what legislators have historically put into our public education system: not enough. From classrooms stuffed with 30+ kids, to the fact that our schools are 49th of all FIFTY states in school funding ...

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The $1.8 Million Driveway at Taxpayer Expense Editor: The City of Hancock is moving forward with constructing a road on a narrow easement between the DNR trail and the PLCA garages on the West end of Navy Street. The construction plans viewed by condo co-owners and townhouse residents showed a vertical, steel piling wall that would be used as a retaining wall for $750,000. That is a totally unacceptable retaining wall and will result in failure. The second alternative is an 18’ high concrete vertical retaining wall built without being tied into the 30-45 degree bank for an ...

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Dear Editor: Republicans, including our representative Jack Bergman, have shut down the Federal Government because they want to strip healthcare away from middle and working-class Americans including Yoopers so they can give more tax cuts to the wealthy. Democrats instead are demanding an extension of enhanced subsidies that help make healthcare affordable for Americans obtaining it through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as a reversal of Medicaid cuts included in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Although Michigan’s recently passed budget fortunately preserves ...

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Amazing service Editor I am writing this letter to publicly thank the owners of The Shipping Shop (Emily and Jacob) and acknowledge the amazing service and professionalism they offered before, during and after packaging and shipping my belongings. I retired this summer and wanted to see if retiring abroad was for me. But, I failed to understand how much time and effort was required for every single part of the endeavor, including, but not limited to sorting the possessions into discard, ship and give away possessions, as well as trying to time the various events into a logical ...

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Just say 'no thanks' Editor: “Tax the rich, fund the schools”... or not. There is presently a petition drive going on to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, known as “Invest in MI kids” The key talking point will be putting a “fair” “surcharge” on the wealthy by increasing the taxes on any earned income over $500K (single) or $1 million (marries filing jointly) and adding a billion dollars a year to education in Michigan. Sounds great, right? Not so much. This proposed change has 3 key flaws. 1. The Michigan constitution currently prohibits a ...

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Retribution Editor: Since his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has called the Bible his favorite book, a sentiment he reiterated during a March 2024 promotion of a patriotic-themed version. When asked to name a favorite Bible verse during his first campaign, he declined, calling it “very personal” and saying he didn't “want to get into specifics.” Humm. During racial justice protests in 2020, then-President Trump held up a Bible for a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, a gesture that was widely condemned by religious leaders for its use of faith as a ...