With freedom, responsibility

July 17, 2020

We’ve heard it before — with freedom comes responsibility. We have freedom of speech, but it’s a crime to yell “fire” in a crowded movie theatre when there is no fire. We have freedom to drive a car when we’re old enough, but we must have a license, proper registration, insurance, wear seat belts and not be intoxicated to be a legal driver. It is illegal to park in a handicapped space without a permit. These freedoms are sometimes limited not only to protect ourselves but just as importantly to help and protect others. Let’s get to the main issue affecting all of us ...

A suggestion to reopen schools

July 16, 2020

A plan for reopening school in our community: — Half of students attend school Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Home school online on Tuesdays and Thursdays. — Second half attend school Tuesdays and Thursdays. Home school online on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This leaves room for social distancing and other safe practices while students still get some live classroom time and personal attention from our great teachers. As our community gets better and the COVID-19 dissipates, we can move to full-time school attendance.

BLM movement mischaracterized

July 15, 2020

EDITOR: This is in response to the Letter to the Editor on July 8 from Ms. Trask. Ms. Trask admonished the Iron Mountain City Council on the resolution they passed affirming the Black Lives Matter movement. Ms. Trask stated that BLM’s “agenda is dangerous and includes leaders who threaten the country if they don’t get what they want.” I found this odd so I went to the source. I tend to do that when I question something that doesn’t seem quite right. After reading the Black Life Matters mission statement on their official website, it stated a much different cause than the ...

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 ...