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Supports Sunshine Protection Act

To the Journal editor: I've lived and worked in Iron Mountain for 47 years and every winter I watch our kids lose the daylight. Here on central time, it's dark by 4:15 in December. A child gets off the bus and there's no light left for sledding, skating or a game in the yard. Four months indoors in front of a screen isn't good for anybody's health or mood. The Sunshine Protection Act would fix that by keeping us on Daylight Saving Time all year. The U.S. House passed it 308 to 117 this summer. It's stuck in the Senate because one senator, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, keeps blocking a ...

Electoral power

The cost of the corruption in Washington is coming out of our pockets. While gas prices skyrocket, rural clinics close, food is not safe to eat, health care premiums increase, AI steals millions of jobs, and data centers increase utility bills, our tax dollars are being used for lavish parades, jets, ballrooms, huge government contracts given to relatives and friends, and the war in Iran. Michigan has lost 12,000 manufacturing jobs in the past 18 months and the president’s wealth has grown by $2.2 billion. We need leaders who will hold corrupt people accountable and work hard to make ...

Before the first proposal

To the Journal editor: Nobody has proposed a data center or a reactor in the Upper Peninsula and nobody may. But the rules get set before any proposal arrives and that is when residents have the most say. So here is a question that costs nothing to ask now: if a nuclear project’s revenue falls short, what happens to its safety budget? First, what Washington is doing. On July 15 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed retiring ALARA, its rule that exposure be kept as low as reasonably achievable and replacing it with a graded approach built on thresholds and cost tests. The legal ...

Spreading falsehoods

To the Journal editor: “Elect Abdul El-Sayed and our country will be living under Sharia Law!” This scare tactic is being spread in the right-wing news, on social media, by word of mouth and in commercials paid by multi-millionaires. Repeat something false often enough and people will believe it. If elected to the United States Senate, Abdul will get one vote. Just one vote. How do you institute Sharia Law with one vote? For those interested in facts, Abdul was born and educated in this country. His platform is: • Money out of politics • Medicare for all • Money in ...

Does your vote matter?

To the Journal editor: Like many of you, I have grown frustrated with the corruption and chaos of Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court and Big Business. If voting wasn't important, these same people wouldn't be trying every trick in the book to take away our right to vote including attempts to stop mail-in voting. Are we better off now with soaring gas/diesel, food and medical insurance prices than we were before Trump's return to office? Is America really great again? Every vote is important. Your vote matters more than ever. The stakes are very high. ...

Barr takes issue with Journal editorial

To the Journal editor: You wrote in your editorial published on Sept. 24, “Don’t look for a Bergman vs. Barr debate": “The mathematics of past elections should tell you most First Congressional District voters care little or not at all where Bergman lives, be it Watersmeet, Louisiana, or the surface of the moon… There is no reason we know of to think anything has changed there for the 2026 midterms.” Since I’ve launched this campaign, I’ve criss-crossed the district, meeting folks who clamor to tell me about what’s changing in their lives and their communities, and how ...