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 ...

To the Journal editor: As we vote in this midterm election, I hope people remember that our current U.S. House representative, Jack Bergman, signed onto a 2020 lawsuit filed against the State of Michigan as well as Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The lawsuit was intended to overturn the ...

To the Journal editor: I support Adam Ladd’s candidacy for the MAPS school board. As the father of four young children currently enrolled in MAPS I have an obvious interest in how our schools are run. I believe Adam Ladd is just the kind of person needed to keep MAPS moving in a positive ...

To the Journal editor: Don’t let your vote on Proposal 3 be a knee-jerk reaction to how you feel about abortion. Think it through. Read the whole proposal. It’s only 323 words, and far more enlightening than the 95-word ballot summary. Much of the language in the proposal is vague, with ...