To the Journal editor: It’s still winter, but soon it will be our next changed season, spring. With that comes longer days, more sunlight and the snow will begin to melt. Remember the blessings the Lord provides with the change of seasons. The beauty of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ...

To the Journal editor: I was dumbfounded by (the Mining Journal story) on our presidential election. To print these partisan statements without any context is irresponsible. State Rep. Markonen’s hair-on-fire statement about “unimaginable horrors at our southern border” needs to be ...

To the Journal editor: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has stopped accepting Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Health Plan (Medicaid.) What this means for U.P. kids on UPHP who need pediatric services is a 22 hour round trip car trip to lower Michigan to receive care instead of two hours away ...

To the Journal editor: Suckers and losers. Those are the words of Donald Trump. I wish I would have wrote this earlier. If anyone is a sucker and loser, Donald Trump is. He was a daddy’s boy so, of course, he wouldn’t let him go into the service, he might get hurt. My grandfather ...

To the Journal editor: Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. and its CEO, Lourenco Goncalves, have been prominent in the news lately with their unsuccessful bid to purchase US Steel, Inc. CCI, or Cliffs, as the historic mining company is called by so many here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has played ...

To the Journal editor: Dear fellow yoopers, I took my birthday walk on the beach last week. Bare sand, sun, 50 degrees; it was effortless to be out there for an hour. It would be delightful in April. Here in February, for my birthday walk, it is wrong. A pleasant day on the beach should be ...