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Letters to the Editor

Put the odds in your favor

EDITOR: Are you insured? I’m not talking about house or car; I’m talking about health and life insurance. Not the kind you get from Blue Cross or New York Life, I’m talking about the COVID-19 vaccine and booster. That is the only policy I feel gives me the statistically assurance that ...

Buck the norm

A few weeks ago I had to go into the emergency room of DCH for an ailment. After correcting the problem, I was put into a waiting room for about 10 to 15 minutes as my paperwork was being processed. Not having my phone with me, and there being no TV or magazines in the room, I decided to make ...

MDOT should consider more left turn signals at intersections

As I travel along the US-2 corridor through Iron Mountain, east through Norway, and then back, I have noticed the amount of traffic that is traveling this busy highway. These vehicles are traveling at speeds between 50 to 60 mph, my guess. There are small vehicles to larger vehicles, as in ...

The essence of American ideals

Is choosing to prioritize us over them an acceptable moral choice or does it matter? This is an issue that underlines refugees from war, violence, poverty and growing up in America without being accepted as American. The late Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Britain, wrote, “To ...

Echoes of ‘Harry and Louise’ ads

EDITOR: Remember “Harry and Louise”? I do. TV ads in which Louise voices her fears of a “government takeover” of health care. Whispers of shortages, denials and “death panels” swept the country. Deep pockets paid for those ads and deep pockets paid for the busloads of tea party ...

Takes issue with letter on LaFave

EDITOR: Definition of inoculation (Merriam-Webster): the act or process or an instance of inoculating especially: the introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies. I am confused about Tracy Asanuma’s letter to the editor in ...