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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from MADD

To the editor: Don’t press your luck by drinking and driving. MADD reminds everyone to keep safe this St. Patrick’s Day MADD Michigan — Mothers Against Drunk Driving is reminding everyone to plan ahead for a safe ride home this St. Patrick’s Day, which continuously ranks as one of the most dangerous holidays on our nation’s roads. “After a year of experiencing the pandemic, we know that people may be looking for opportunities to celebrate – and that safety may not be top of mind,” said MADD’s Northern Michigan’s Victim Service Specialist Betsy Harris ...

Follow medical advice

To the editor: In Mr. O’Leary’s letter about following medical advice, he used the opioid epidemic as an example of the failure of the medical community to be credible. According to him they “created and encouraged the flood of opioids into communities.” True, science created medications to ease pain and help our bodies cope with a variety of surgeries and damages. I would hate to have gone through any procedures I faced without the created drugs and scientific knowledge. But the medical community only develops these things and implements use under either government or ...

Open letter to Jack Bergman

To the editor: Your latest newsletter touts your co-sponsorship of the REINS Act in the U.S. House. This bill is intended to strengthen oversight of the Executive Branch and prevent abuse of power. It’s worth noting that this bill, or a version of it, has been introduced by every Congress since 2011. I heartily endorse the intent of this bill. However good the intent of the bill, I would like to point out that there is a reason for Executive Overreach. Overreach is frequently prompted by the failure of Congress to pass laws, leaving our Executive branch without laws to follow. While ...

Peaceful protest

To the editor: Most Trump supporters in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6 were peaceful, but that wasn’t emphasized in biased news reports about the “deadly riot” that day. Last year’s numerous riots by Marxists and anarchists were described by the news media as “mostly peaceful protests.” They caused $2 billion in damages plus many injuries and deaths. On Jan. 4, an Antifa mob terrorized the wife and newborn daughter of Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri at their D.C.-area home because that Republican objected to vote vote fraud that helped Biden win the election. Shut Down DC is the ...

Time to switch to nuclear

To the editor: Nuclear power: what is it? It is one of the cleanest, most reliable powers that we have today. A number of years ago, I wrote a letter to this paper about nuclear power on naval ships, aircraft carriers and submarines. The following year, I went to an REA annual membership meeting at the Chassell Township School. There were two VIPs there; one from Lansing and one from WEE Engineering in Green Bay. I talked to both of them after the meeting. I told them I will send them the letter information I sent to the Gazette. About one year later, I was on a conference ...

Think about what you toss

To the editor: Our seventh-grade class did a poster on how most animals die in the Atlantic. We found that less than half of the animals die organically (from natural causes), and what we do here affects them. If you throw a bottle out in this area, it will eventually end up in an ocean. Some simple things you can change in your everyday lives to help are: use less plastic, like using reusable water bottles, bags and straws. Another idea of ours was just simply recycle more. These are just some ways you could help by changing something in your everyday life.