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Roadless Rule a good one

To the Journal editor: The U.S. Forest Service needs to keep its Roadless Rule, which protects millions of acres of wild public lands. In 2001, after hundreds of public hearings and input from more than a million stakeholders, the Forest Service established the Roadless Area Conservation Rule which meant that Roadless areas - with limited exceptions – have been kept free of roads and development. In addition to designated wilderness areas, Michigan has 6 roadless areas (https://maps.roadless.org/). The largest of these, Norwich Plains in the Ottawa National Forest, includes parts of ...

New partnership to bring more good food to U.P.

To the Journal editor: In (the) Upper Peninsula, we have a proud legacy of agriculture carried on by farmers across our region. Sadly, access to this fresh, nutritious Michigan-grown food remains out of reach for many of our own residents. The Chippewa-Luce-Mackinac Community Action Agency is proud of our work expanding access to local food for people across the eastern Upper Peninsula and empowering communities through programs for older adults, Head Start services for children and providing weatherization to families to help lower utility bills. That’s why the CLMCAA team is now ...

Fossil fuel industry controls government

The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this process has come at a tremendous cost. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has never occurred in the history of our planet. Why, then, do we continue to burn planet killing fossil fuels? One primary reason is the tremendous control the fossil fuel industry has over our government. The industry spends approximately $250 million dollars per year lobbying elected officials. The vast majority of this money goes to Republican officials and ...

Cavanagh, Hood deserve support

To the Journal editor: This year’s elections are very important. We need to elect people who really care about us. I got to meet Michigan’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood recently during their tour of the Upper Peninsula. It is clear they care a lot about the people they serve. Both are strong supporters of problem-solving courts. Why should this matter to you? If you know anyone who has to go to court for a nonviolent offense – child and family, mental health and/or substance use issues – it matters! They are both committed to ensuring ...

Fraud ending

To the Journal editor: I must express my satisfaction that the biggest fraud perpetrated on the world, namely global warming/climate change, is ending. In deference to the true believers who asserted that the science is in, there is about 600 million years of carbon dioxide data (Berner 2001) and global temperature data (Scotese 2002). The irony of it all is that these true believers are the very people who chose to ignore it under the misconception that if it happened before they were born, it couldn’t be important. However, this data shows, global CO2 in the Cambrian Period at ...

Give peace a chance

To the Journal editor: I would like to believe that as a civilization we would evolve not only intellectually, but at the same time, learn how to focus our vast multitude of cultures on the goal of striving for peace and the well-being of each and every person. At this point in our history I think it would be fair to ask the question, why is there such widespread anger and violence encroaching on the human race? Why are we fighting each other rather than supporting and holding each other up? One would think we'd have surpassed the desire to perpetuate this anger and violence in our ...