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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 ...

Time to hate wolves – again?

To the Journal editor: In the Sept. 21 (edition of the) Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton) I read of legislation proposed in the State House to require hunting and trapping of gray wolves in Michigan, if and when the species is removed from the federal list of endangered species. This is not the first time, and probably not the last, for such a proposal. What is new, of course, is that voters go to the polls in another month and will see the names of the sponsor and co-sponsor, respectively, of the proposed bill - state representatives Dave Prestin, R-Cedar River and Greg Markkanen, ...

Enough is enough

To the Journal editor: When will American voters finally say “Enough is enough?" Are they really OK with the Trump family slurping up billions of dollars off connections to power? Bitcoin anyone? Do they truly believe that voting by mail is rife with fraud? There have been more Jan. 6 pardoned insurrectionists rearrested in the past year than fraudulent voters arrested in the past 20 years. How long will they accept Trump’s stonewalling of the release of the Epstein files as required by the law he signed? There are millions of pages still to be released and much of what has been ...