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Letters to the Editor

Fair elections

EDITOR: Is voting really important? The definition of democracy is a system of government where the power of governing is vested in the people through elected representation. In this case, the people mean all people living in the area boundaries defined as citizens in our case except ...

A look back at his predictions

I wrote the below Letter to the Editor in May 2021 and I wish I were wrong regarding my predictions. Very sadly, my predictions have come true and even more severe. I have only updated our projected debt and the very last sentence below from my May 2021 letter — After electing an affable, ...

USPS’s ignorance of the needs in UP inexcusable

EDITOR: U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman sent this letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after a disappointing response from U.S. Post Office officials at the public input meeting on the future of the Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center in Kingsford — I write to you following the ...

Democrats will destroy America

So, former President Donald Trump packed the U.S. Supreme Court. Are you saying, Mr. Miller (Letter to the Editor on March 12), that the Democrats would not pack the court with liberal judges? Same old one-way, Democrat-system thinking. The Supreme Court should have no political affiliation, ...

Remembering news carrier boys winning Chicago trip in 1953

On a Wednesday afternoon, March 11, 1953, I was 12 years old. The Iron Mountain News paperboys, who won a trip to Chicago, were being picked up and brought to The Iron Mountain News office. There were 20 winners. We earned points, 75 to qualify, adding new customers, and selling to customers ...

Thinking through impeachment

I see the House of Representatives is trying to impeach President Joe Biden no matter how specious their “evidence” against him is. It is probably going nowhere, but let us just for a moment consider that they do impeach him and that the Senate convicts him and he is out of office. That ...