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Letters to the Editor

A cause to die for

To the editor: “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” These words, written by Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary General of the United Nations in the 1950s, came to mind as I read about the people who plotted to kidnap Gov. ...

Gazette shame

To the editor: The Houghton Daily Mining Gazette’s cartoon on the subject of transgender athletes was offensive, inconsiderate, and demonstrates a total lack of concern for the truth, which I thought was the purpose of a newspaper. It mocks a population faced with social scorn, resulting ...

STRs in Eagle Harbor

To the editor: For the past 52 years, I have spent a portion of my summer in Eagle Harbor. My family roots run deep. You can’t walk by a house where I don’t know who lives there or a headstone at Pine Grove that I am most likely related to. I am far from wealthy, and my parents were ...

A step in the wrong direction

To the editor: If the Keweenaw is to thrive and if we’re going to protect its natural areas, we need a healthy tourist industry. The last thing we need is for townships to tell tourists to go home. That’s exactly what Eagle Harbor is doing with their proposed STR ordinance.  With its ...

Beware fascism

To the editor: Tony Gerstberger’s letter (MG, March 18) is just another right wing Trump-like rant. He warns us of the left’s socialist trends, the usual scare tactic. Political systems are on a continuum from Communism on the far left to Fascism on the far right; we are somewhere in ...

Response to several STR letters

To the editor: On March 9, the Gazette published three Letters to the Editor dealing with a proposal to regulate Short-term rentals in Eagle Harbor Township. Challenging as it is to address three letters within the Gazette’s 400-word limit, that the letters have much in common, including ...