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Letters to the Editor

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 ...

Speak up against copper mine plan

I strongly oppose the Michigan Strategic Fund using $50 million in taxpayer revenue to fund the proposed Copperwood Mine, right next to both Lake Superior and the Porcupine Mountains. In addition to disrupting the area with noise and light pollution, subterranean blasting and heavy industrial ...

Bergman needs to step aside

Jack Bergman voted to close down our government on Feb. 29. He should be known by the company he keeps. He voted with Andy Briggs, the election denier from Arizona; with Lauren Boebert, thrown out of a theater for vaping and groping her date; with Matt Gaetz, who the House Ethics Committee is ...