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Preserve historic fair concessions building

I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the Dickinson County Fair Board's recent decision to tear down the historic concessions building at the fairgrounds rather than pursue repairs, using available marijuana tax revenue and community donations. This fair building is more than wood and concrete. It represents decades of county fair memories, agricultural tradition and community gatherings. Generations of families have stood in line there for delicious food and to view wonderful exhibits. The building is part of our agricultural heritage that defines our county. Once it is ...

Stop signs, replay and the Commandments

They say there are two sides to every story, and “they” are right. Problem being, both sides can’t be right. Truth transcends wrong thinking and wrong feelings. In view of the recent murders in our country along with an increase of extreme hatred and violence many are asking, how can we turn this around? What is the answer? Guns in the hands of deranged people are dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed. But is the answer to the problem to restrict guns from everyone? Or to help people with their wrong thinking? After all it wasn’t the rifle that climbed up on the rooftop, it ...

Condoning by action of inaction

Are we following the Constitution? The U.S. Constitution, among other things, defines how our federal government should work and the limits it has. It defines the three branches of government and the duties of each in order to maintain a democratic form of government. A weak legislature and/or a weak judicial branch, as the founders knew, would lead to an autocratic or dictatorship. It appears to me we have a Republican Party majority that has seriously weakened the Legislative branch in favor of the Executive Branch and the President, and a Supreme Court that has given the President ...

Time for people to wake up about Trump

Watching Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, appear in front of Congress on Feb. 12 concerning the Jeffrey Epstein scandal was akin to trying to get excitement from hoping a dead mouse in a trap miraculously comes back to life. It literally was insanity at its finest. She stated instead of investigating pedophilia and rape, along with sex trafficking, what Congress and her should have been talking about is the Dow hitting 50,000. After mentioning it once, I am not certain what the conversation could be; I guess she could lead Congress and Epstein’s victims who were there in an ...

Time to make a real change back

With the unrest going on now, we need to look back a bit to see why. When Barack Obama was running for president, he said, “I am going to fundamentally change America" and I guess people wanted change and elected him. He was our first Democratic socialist. His understudy, Joe Biden, was the second. Now we have change that a lot of people don’t like. They opened our borders and let 10 million people in to include ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood, gangs from several countries and a whole lot of people that hate us and our country but love the “bennies” and what they can get away ...

Different view of recall petition hearing

I also attended the clarification hearing Feb. 2, regarding the language of the recall petition for four of our Dickinson County Board members. I’m interested in how government works on local levels and have attended several city and county board meetings in the past two years. This particular hearing was a learning opportunity. I found the process worked exactly the way Michigan law intends. A recall hearing isn’t a trial and isn’t designed to determine the truth or falsity of allegations. The panel’s sole responsibility is to determine if the language of the petition is ...