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Living here

To the editor: Aside from the natural beauty of this rugged land that we enjoy, there once was a more profound sense of community not typical of contemporary America in this place that we all call home. Though I worked as a professor at Tech, I never sensed much of a town/gown divide that is so typical of most college towns. The very occasional “college-boy” good-natured ribbing from the coffee crew at Tina’s or the Suomi rather ironically let me know that I had been accepted into the community. Town folk came in all shapes and sizes; young and old, rich and poor. Yet, ...

Transformation

To the editor: Can you think of a story in which the hero does not undergo a significant change? Consider Saul’s conversion to Paul, (Acts 1:1-19). What changed Saul from a killer to a teacher was not God’s anger but His love. Jesus said, “You are forgiven. Now go and sin no more.” (John 8:11). And remember Ebenezer Scrooge, the hero of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Confronted by the ghost of his former partner, a terrified Scrooge tried to flatter Marley by complimenting him on his business acumen. “Business!” thundered the ghost, shaking his finger at ...

Line 5 is essential to UP

To the editor: We residents of the upper Great Lakes are seeing rising energy costs and will see costs skyrocket if Line 5 is shut down. Shutting down the affordable energy Michiganders rely on would be a disaster. Line 5 continues to safely operate, as it has for more than 65 years, despite the Governor’s efforts to shut it down. Line 5 is responsible for 55% of the state’s propane and 65% of the Upper Peninsula’s propane usage. Without Line 5, Michiganders would be left scrambling trying to secure energy to heat their homes and businesses. Thousands of paychecks and ...

On abortion

To the editor: Dear Reverend, You wrote in your Aug. 8 DMG letter to the editor that, “I am a pro-choice and pro-democracy believer. Also, I believe the new Texas aborts democracy.” This letter and its contents from the Reverend are concerning. Democracy, when plagued with rational liberalism, is a curse to our nation. Under its influence, the fear of God is being removed from the eyes of the people. The Webster Dictionary describes rationalism as, “the principle of practice of accepting reason as the only authority in determining one’s opinions or course of action; in ...

Nutritional awareness

To the editor: I commend Dr. McClean for his nutritional awareness The subject and the disinformation about Dr. Kilmer McCully in his 1969 book: The Homocysteine Theory of Arteriosclerosis, has been going on since that time, with the pharmaceutical laughing at Dr. McCully, when he approached them and they ridiculed him! All of the cholesterol medications they have sold were greed based, in my opinion, just like Purdue Pharma and their 30+ years of telling doctors that their opiates were not addictive! At the same time in the 1960’s, the sugar industry had a campaign with “paid ...

Climate numbers matter

To the editor: At the International Climate Conference in Scotland, scientists grappled with troubling numbers. The human species is ejecting 50 billion tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere a year primarily by burning coal, oil, and gas. So far, these heat trapping gasses have locked in enough heat to warm a whole planet 1.1C/2.0F. The energy being trapped is equivalent to four Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding every second. The consequence is the world’s climate is deteriorating. Scientists agree if we do not switch to plentiful non-polluting sources of energy from the sun ...