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Farmland at issue

Michigan has lost nearly 100,000 acres of farmland in one year. That’s about one acre every five minutes, according to MLive. Big farms are currently thriving while small and midsize farming operations are disappearing. But who is buying all this land? And what is it being used for? Questions that many Michiganders are wanting answers to or are just now wondering about. 86% of Michigan’s farmland has been lost between 2001 and 2021 and has since been converted into housing developments near major cities such as Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Grand Rapids, according to researchers. Farms ...

Iranian goals questioned

Here is a letter I sent U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, on March 9 through his Congressional portal. Congressman Bergman, The Trump administration’s multiple tariffs, threats to annex Greenland and Canada, attacks on Venezuela purportedly for drug trafficking, while pardoning a former Honduran president/drug kingpin, are baffling. The administration’s policies align more with the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland than a great nation. The policies, bereft of reason, are chaotic, out of focus, and consistently and needlessly cruel. The administration has killed American ...

Something’s happening here

To the Journal editor: Where there's thunder, lightning will follow. Loud thunder can be indicative of how close it is. And the one Mississippi, two M... count is a sort of measure of how near lightning will strike. Thunderstorms and lightning can be exciting to hear and view from a sheltered environment. Lightning has been recognized as an electric current that gives gardeners a nitrogen boost or starts a fire. Either way, being literally struck by lightning is not in one's best interest. The lie detectors have been sounding the alarm with increased frequency. The garden — this ...

Question posed

To the Journal editor: Nathan Hale supposedly said prior to being executed by the British in 1776, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” As a free thinking American citizen, I’m also — like Nathan Hale — willing to give my life in the fight against Trump’s insanity as he blows up our world. What will you do?

Immigration reform needed

Suppose a luxury liner with 100 passengers one day discovers there are four stowaways on board. Would you vote to toss the four overboard, or would you find a way to accommodate these less fortunate, hard-working stowaways? Now consider, of the roughly 340 million people in the U.S., 14 million are unauthorized.* As with the ratio of our stowaways to passengers, the number of unauthorized immigrants make up just 4% of our total population. With the immigration influx down to a trickle, what seems to be the problem? Well, for starters, our president is a racist. He thought we ...

Is this what we want?

To the Journal editor: In just one year, we have changed from a nation of peace to a nation of war, violence and aggression. Our Department of Defense has been re-named the Department of War. President Trump has shuttered the United States Institute of Peace, a federally funded non-profit institution that promotes conflict resolution and prevention. Our current leaders use language that glorifies killing like “warrior” instead of “soldier,” and “lethality” instead of “bravery” and “retribution” instead of “justice.” President Trump is planning to install a ...