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Letters to the Editor

What changed for Pence?

On Jan. 6, 2021, during the attack on the US Capitol Vice President Mike Pence inspired me and hundreds of thousands of Americans because he was “too honest” to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. If I understand correctly, Pence had to defy the advice of the Secret ...

Parade season etiquette

Parade season is upon us and I’d like to ask our community to behave with respect for those in the parades and for those around them. In the past few years, some parade watchers have decided it’s okay to shout foul language at groups marching in the parade. You don’t have to like ...

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 ...