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Post office not using TRICO

My name is Brian Brouillette and I am the board president of TRICO Opportunities, a voluntary position. This is a letter to follow up my letter/article dated Feb. 13 that was published last month. The issue that I am asking the public for help with is the fact that U.S. Post Office in Kingsford is sending its recyclable materials to downstate Michigan, which is costing the Kingsford post office money, instead of to TRICO Opportunities right here in Kingsford that was picking it up for free. This helps us keep our handicapped clients working. Please contact your Congressman via one ...

Copper mine a bad investment

On Feb. 27 more than 30 individuals delivered spoken comments to the Michigan Strategic Fund, voicing opposition to a proposed $50 million grant to Copperwood, a foreign company’s plan to open a metallic sulfide mine at the juncture of Lake Superior, Porcupine Mountains State Park, and the North Country Trail. Here’s why: The main thing our tax dollars would be paying for is not copper, but waste. With an ore grade of just 1.45%, for every ton of extracted material, 29 pounds would be copper, and 1,971 pounds would be waste, requiring on-site storage, forever, in a 323-acre ...

SAY Soccer needs board members

The SAY Soccer 2024 season registration is open and will be closing March 10. Registration is $65 per participant for the 2024 soccer season. There is a late registration fee after the March 10 deadline; the cost increases to $75 and closes on March 17 as the absolute last day for registration, so please don’t hesitate to sign up your kids by going to www.saynml.org. The sooner we know how many kids to account for the better. Have you ever thought about volunteering or getting involved? SAY Soccer needs board members. It takes a village to make a season work. Last year we had ...

A suggestion on stopping bullies

The United States Senate recently held hearings decrying social media as the culprit of children that have committed suicide because of bullying over the internet. Granted, I cannot imagine the pain and sorrow of the parents who have to suffer through the tragedy. However, these clowns in Washington yelling social media has “blood on their hands” makes for really great grandstanding but does not in any way get to the heart of the problem of bullying. I would have loved to ask these great Senatorial leaders of ours if social media did not exist would they be bringing hearings for ...

Failure to act on border solution

Can one be on both sides of the same issue? I ask this because it appears to me that being for a Southern border solution and then claiming you are against one that was, as U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said, the best they could hope for even under a Trump administration is not caring much for solving the problem. This was the behavior of the large majority of the Republican Party in Congress at the direction of Donald Trump. The border bill was a very conservative bill containing substantial increases in border officers, substantial increases in staff to process applicants within 6 ...

US Sen. Peters speaks out on possible USPS changes in area

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has called on the United States Postal Service to provide further details regarding proposed changes to mail operations at its Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center in Kingsford. In a letter, Peters shared his concerns about a recent “Mail Processing Facility Review” that outlines potential changes at the Iron Mountain facility that could move a portion of its operations to a facility in Green Bay, Wis. After postponement of a public meeting to discuss these ...