Fears of higher deficit shouldn’t halt stimulus aid

January 27, 2021

In recent days I have been listening to the people in government talking about how giving more money to help people during this COVID-19 pandemic would raise the deficit. I agree that giving money to people in need might make the deficit rise. The same thing happened when the Republicans gave a big tax cut to the super rich. The only difference is we have a consumer-driven economy. This means that money needs to be spent to help the economy grow. The tax cuts didn’t put money in the economy but actually took money out. From March through October, more than 4.2 billion meals were ...

Thoughts on ‘lady’ athletes from a former Norway Knight

January 26, 2021

Although I consider myself a Yooper, I have not lived in my beloved U.P. for nearly 15 years. This does not matter — I am who I am because of my experiences here. I wouldn’t have had the grit or motivation to endure some of the hardships in life had I not grown up here. Some of the most formative experiences for me were as a Norway Knight. Specifically, as a varsity volleyball player under Liz Gendron’s coaching. She was TOUGH. Her expectations were higher than those I had for myself. This was because she saw things I did not. She somehow reached in and coached out the potential ...

The meaning of ‘we the people’

January 25, 2021

What does “we the people” mean? This is ambiguous because of the undefined meaning of people. I have had it said to me after an election. To me, we the people means all the people in a country if referring to a country or in a state when referring to a state. In this incident the person was referring to a selected group and implied that others were wrong or their ideas were irrelevant. The value of hearing all the people, vetting ideas against hard provable truths by using hard evidence supported by recognized expertise from several relevant sources results in ideas free of most ...

Needed to check facts on wolf hunt column

January 21, 2021

The Iron Mountain Daily News did a great disservice by not fact-checking a column by Gary Gorniak published Jan. 15. When Gorniak spoke at the Western CAC meeting earlier this month, he never mentioned wolves in the town of St. Ignace or the young lady who climbed a tree to escape a wolf. This is likely because the Michigan Department of Natural Resources biologists who attended the meeting — and record and investigate such events — would have refuted these stories. These claims have not been documented with the DNR. Gorniak has refused to accept facts presented by biologists at ...

Bergman wrong backing Trump

January 19, 2021

Sorry to see that U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, of Michigan’s 1st Congressional District will miss out on being included in the second printing of “Profiles in Courage.” Bergman couldn’t find the courage to join the 10 Republicans who called for Trump’s impeachment. It would seem that the taking of the Capitol, the interference with the Constitutional counting of the Electoral College votes, and the blood of Capitol Police officers wounded and killed as a direct result of Donald Trump’s urging the mobs to go to the Capitol would be enough. But not for Jack, who ...

Impeachment serves you, not us

January 15, 2021

Dear Mitch, Nancy, Chuck, Kevin (YOU): Because I believe YOU are intelligent, I can only assume that what YOU are doing is “pure politics” and has nothing to do with We the People (US). YOU talked about the D.C. protestors as obstructing the operation of our government but YOU did the exact same thing with your government shutdowns. YOU say that the violence at the Capitol is terrible because it is your house, but the McCloskeys of St. Louis were defending their house and YOU did nothing. In 2011, 100,000 protestors occupied the Capitol in Madison, Wis., and half of YOU praised ...