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Letters to the Editor

We appreciate your support

To the editor: We at CLK Post 3900 of the VFW would like to give a huge thank-you to our golfers, hole Sponsors, Auxiliary and Sandy Pebbles Golf Course for a successful 15th Annual Neil Isaacson golf fundraiser. We understand that this year has made it harder on all of the nonprofit ...

Vote smart

To the editor: Janet Metsa is running for the Michigan House of Representatives, district 110. I first met Janet as an MTU junior when she was still in high school- not yet Chassell’s valedictorian and not yet the recipient a full scholarship to MIT. She was a dairy farmer’s daughter and ...

Sour grapes

To the editor: In the 8-20-20 edition of the DMG, the headline story was about how disappointed three republican representatives from the U.P. were about not getting any people from the U.P. on Michigan’s new Redistricting Commission. Why does it matter what part of the state the people ...

Judging a book too quickly

To the editor: Too many people are what Lenin called “useful idiots” for condoning his radicalism. Like the Marxists, they emphasize group identities (“oppressors” vs. “victims”), not individual acts. Thirty years ago, when he was interviewed on 20/20 (ABC), jazz musician Miles ...

Fascism in America

To the editor: Welcome to fascist America. The sending of uninvited, unidentified, camouflaged-wearing Federal troops to quell a peaceful protest is the hallmark of a fascist/Nazi tactic. And the clueless president is threatening to do more of the same. Clearly, with an election coming up, ...

Courage and conscience

To the editor: Irina Ratushinskaya, a citizen of Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, was arrested as a dissident in 1983 and imprisoned with a few other women political activists for several years. Her book, “Grey Is the Color of Hope,“ written in 1989, is a celebration of the ...