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Letters to the Editor

The trouble with sewage lagoons

Greenhouse. What is it? A building, lots of light, moisture (water), plants and soil (mixed with waste or manure). That manure is usually from the farmer’s cow. This gives off gases: hydrogen sulfide (odor), methane (hot burns by the sun), ammonia (burns and kills leaves), carbon dioxide ...

Defective Resolution

4/11/23 the Houghton County Board of Commissioners passed resolution 23-10 “Affirming Support for All Constitutional Rights, Including, But not limited to, the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Firearms ...” Listing only the 2nd Amendment the resolution is implying that it is the ...

Kiitos from Kivajat

The Kivajat Finnish-American Folk Dancers wish to extend a hearty kiitos - thank you - for the community support of our recent Old Time Country Dance. Oren Tikkanen and the Backroom Boys donated their musical talents while preschoolers to octogenarians, with a vibrant energy from collegiate ...

Invest in our planet

Happy Earth Day! Should this be a celebration for the Earth or should this be a wake for all species of plants and animals lost due to harmful activities of man (“The Crazy Ape”) as Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate for Medicine said in 1970? In 1969, the year before Earth Day’s ...

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. ...

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 ...