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Letters To The Editor

Context needed

To the Journal editor: I was dumbfounded by (the Mining Journal story) on our presidential election. To print these partisan statements without any context is irresponsible. State Rep. Markonen’s hair-on-fire statement about “unimaginable horrors at our southern border” needs to be ...

Truth sought

To the Journal editor: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has stopped accepting Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Health Plan (Medicaid.) What this means for U.P. kids on UPHP who need pediatric services is a 22 hour round trip car trip to lower Michigan to receive care instead of two hours away ...

Trump said it

To the Journal editor: Suckers and losers. Those are the words of Donald Trump. I wish I would have wrote this earlier. If anyone is a sucker and loser, Donald Trump is. He was a daddy’s boy so, of course, he wouldn’t let him go into the service, he might get hurt. My grandfather ...

Cliffs moves questioned

To the Journal editor: Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. and its CEO, Lourenco Goncalves, have been prominent in the news lately with their unsuccessful bid to purchase US Steel, Inc. CCI, or Cliffs, as the historic mining company is called by so many here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has played ...

Climate conundrum

To the Journal editor: Dear fellow yoopers, I took my birthday walk on the beach last week. Bare sand, sun, 50 degrees; it was effortless to be out there for an hour. It would be delightful in April. Here in February, for my birthday walk, it is wrong. A pleasant day on the beach should be ...

Green update

To the Journal editor: Michigan’s new clean energy legislation pits local zoning officials against local landowners who want to place clean solar and wind on their land. According to Citizens for Local Choice, “local zoning control is a sacred right enjoyed by local units.” Really? ...