To the Journal editor: It will be interesting to see those who identify as Republican vote for that party amid calls by the so-called “leaders” of the (GOP) to abolish Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. By abolish, I mean to privatize it, reduce current benefits and to scale back ...

To the Journal editor: Proposal 3 does not protect existing abortion option. Rather, it is a Constitutional amendment that will annihilate all existing laws that protect both the unborn and women. What you read in the summary on the ballot is misleading and misrepresents the proposal’s ...

To the Journal editor: As we who live near the Straits of Mackinac both upper and lower peninsulas face another election, we should be guided by Line 5. It is the most critical issue in the neighborhood. Any candidate who supports keeping this threat going is not representing us, but is ...

To the Journal editor: I live among a large segment of the silent majority who mind their own business and only step in when the innocent or helpless are being threatened. This is the training that I received from my World War II veteran father who returned from the Pacific war after ...

To the Journal editor: In a recent mailing I received from Jack Bergman, he uses the tagline “Political Outsider.” He has been a congressman since 2017, so I wonder why he portrays himself as a political outsider. Does “Political Outsider” mean that he lives outside our district? A ...

To the Journal editor: Soon, Michigan voters will decide if women will be able to elect to undergo a medical procedure to legally and safely terminate a pregnancy as they have been able to do for nearly the last fifty years. Access to abortion is, perhaps, the hot button issue in the ...