On Jan. 25, a joint statement was released by Michigan state Sen. Ed McBroom (R-Waucedah Township) and state Reps. Greg Markkanen (R-Hancock), Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) and Sara Cambensy (D-Marquette) voicing their continued support for the Back Forty Mine and openly criticizing ...

EDITOR: This will not be long, just facts. This is to the woman who wrote, “Wolves are not a problem.” I have been hunting for 62 years now. I know facts; this woman does not. The past five years of deer hunting have gotten worst every year. Two years ago, I saw five deer. I hunt with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...