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Letters to the Editor

In defense of Trump’s actions to combat coronavirus

EDITOR: This is in response to Walt Brey’s letter Monday, “Stop politicizing virus response.” People who take cheap shots at President Trump over the coronavirus are displaying their own ignorance. If Trump had listened to Dr. Anthony Fauci early on, he would have thought the virus ...

Remembering the bucktail bait

As a young lad, I was happy to have been able to spend lots of hours fishing and learning from my father because he was an expert fisherman. Sometimes he would drop everything and say, “Let’s go fishing now; the sun is the correct color and the air smells just right.” He would get the ...

Important to get that US Census form filled out

It’s very important to respond to your U.S. Census form. The Upper Michigan response rate at this time is less than 50 percent. There are many things that are funded by the amount of responses that are turned in to the Census Bureau. The amount of funds distributed to counties, cities, ...

More data needed on UP virus cases

As of April 15, there were 56 reported cases of COVID-19 with nine deaths in the Upper Peninsula. (Editor’s note: That rose to 67 cases and 10 deaths as of Monday afternoon.) Those numbers should draw the grave attention of our representatives, health workers and every person concerned ...

Stop politicizing virus response

If our president would have listened to the scientists and acted to fight COVID-19 sooner, instead of calling it a hoax, maybe our governor would not have to be doing the things she is doing and our state representative could give his pen a rest and quit making this political. I side with the ...

Need to unite for common cause

I am a concerned citizen of the state of Michigan. On the TV, they say we are at war with this virus. Our leaders say the same. So why are we not uniting in this common cause? States are left to fend for themselves — that’s how it looks to me. The governor needs to unite us in this cause. ...