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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 ...

Remembering Dave ‘The Can Man’ Dawe

Dave “The Can Man & Tangler” Dawe: Nov. 14, 1951 — Feb. 11, 2025. I CAN make it through the next 24 hours. I CAN make today better than yesterday! I CAN make someone laugh today! I CAN teach a survival class. I CAN choose to focus on what I have, not what I want! I CAN ride this ...

Recall petition process flawed

I attended the recent “clarification hearing” regarding the language of four recall petitions submitted by four disgruntled citizens. I went for two reasons: to show my support for our current County Board of Commissioners and to better understand the clarification process itself. The process was revealing. First, the petition language was read aloud. Then, the individual promoting the petition spoke against a specific commissioner. After that, the commissioner was given an opportunity to respond. Commissioners and audience members alike presented testimony, statistics, and factual ...