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Letters To The Editor

Workers Memorial Day a time to reflect

To the Journal editor: Sunday is Workers Memorial Day. This is a day where we remember workers killed, injured and sickened from their jobs and pledge to fight for all workers to have the freedom to work safely. More than 50 years ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act ...

Transparency needed here

To the Journal editor: I have a simple question: Why is Dr. Bob Lorinser, D-Marquette, no longer employed by the Marquette County Board of Health? Not only is this a taxpayer-funded position, but Dr. Lorinser, while employed by Marquette County, launched a campaign to run as the Democratic ...

Save Old Town

To the Journal editor: Old Town Negaunee makes up about 320 acres. The Negaunee City Council on Jan. 18 voted 4 to 2 to rezone 5 acres of it — at the corners of Cyr and Snow streets — from public use to multi-family residential, despite the fact that the vast majority of the packed ...

Bergman off base on aid vote

To the Journal editor: U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman’s official house.gov website states “He is shaking up the status quo in Congress.” That is apparent most recently by voting no on House Resolution 8035, the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. The vote from Bergman, ...

Possible wolf solution

To the Journal editor: Live trapping wolves in the Upper Peninsula and relocating them in the lower peninsula where the numbers are higher, could be the answer. Relocate say 100 or 150 over the desired number in the U.P. Relocation could possibly have a number of benefits: Higher deer ...

Communication needed here

To the Journal editor: One can only wonder how a community that historically came together to solve issues has become so divided with comments to each other having become so unproductive. This is not just the case for the community in question this is a statewide problem. The two arguments ...