Woman wrong to confront officer

July 9, 2020

EDITOR: Recently, one of the four officers involved in the death of George Floyd Jr. was grocery shopping at Cub Foods in a suburb of Minneapolis when he was asked by a woman if he was indeed one of the officers involved. The officer admitted he was J. Alexander Kueng. The woman then started to berate the officer, calling him a murderer and telling him he had no right to be there as he should be in jail. She then started yelling to other customers that a murderer was amongst them and he should not be there. Officer Kueng responded by saying quietly he understood why the woman felt ...

IM council should rescind support of BLM movement

July 8, 2020

A recent front-page article announced that the Iron Mountain City Council passed a resolution affirming the Black Lives Matter movement. No doubt their intentions were good and they wanted to proclaim that racism is ugly and unwelcome in our community. Who wouldn’t agree with that? But I don’t agree that there is a need to affirm the controversial BLM movement, which calls for whites to pay reparations for slavery, plans to disrupt the nuclear family structure, insists on defunding the police and much worse. BLM’s agenda is dangerous and the organization includes leaders who ...

Nothing wrong with absentee voting system

July 7, 2020

I have heard our president speaking this past week about a flood of ballots, fraudulent ballots, being sent in for the upcoming election from Europe and other places to slant our election process. When I heard this, I had to wonder how the president’s staff let him include such an impossible falsehood in a presidential speech. My wife and I vote by mail, as that is what our county desires during the COVID-19 problem, which is now overshadowing everything in the world. We had to go though a process of identification and follow another procedure when mailing in our ballots to have them ...

McBroom fails to reveal all facts in supporting Line 5 tunnel

July 1, 2020

EDITOR: This is in response to an op-ed by state Sen. Ed McBroom that recently appeared in the Escanaba Daily Press. His piece voices strong opinions in favor of the tunnel project but fails to explore the facts about Line 5 and the proposed tunnel. He claims the tunnel will make a safe pipeline safer. Let’s start with the fact that the portion of the pipeline that crosses the Straits of Mackinac is now 67 years old. Numerous areas of bare pipe have been discovered. The bed under the pipeline has been scoured, and additional anchors have had to be put in place, a clear demonstration ...

LaFave on wrong side over microchip bill

June 30, 2020

State Rep. Beau “stop top-down government” LaFave is hard on Gov. Whitmer because he supports personal freedoms. He’s not for statewide efforts to curtail COVID-19’s spread like the “Stay Home, Stay Safe” approach, even though the COVID-19 has killed 5,915 Michiganders. He’s not for responsible gun safety, storing his weapons in his sock drawer and showing up with an assault rifle at the “State of the State” address. But Beau LaFave is just fine with letting employers require employees or prospective employees be forced to have devices put in their bodies as a ...

On the brink of a new Civil War?

June 29, 2020

This presidential election, the one issue that will be the deciding factor on who I vote for will be who is the best candidate most qualified to unite the country. The reason being follows: Recently, at a protest in Atlanta, some Black protesters brought some high-powered firearms with them. Basically, they were making a point that if the right-wing conservatives can openly carry such weaponry and use the right of the Second Amendment as their defense in doing so, they have the right to do the same. All it takes is for one shot to be fired, and please pardon my bluntness, but all hell ...