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Letters To The Editor

Citizen’s choice

If you don’t know about Zion National Park’s Angels Landing hike, do a search. To me the narrow path represents democracy’s journey and steel safety chain represents our Constitution, with one slip you plunge into either extreme left or right authoritarianism. After Soviet Union ...

What’s right and wrong

Congress says big cuts are needed. Where can we save money? What can we do without? And I wonder, where do we get more income? Big program cuts are only needed because Congress wants to cut government income by extending / expanding huge tax cuts for corporations and top income earners. ...

Who cares about whom?

Congress is considering a bill that would cut millions of dollars from Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and the Veterans Administration health services. President Trump, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, and others want us to think this is cutting “waste, fraud and ...

Matter of priorities

I am writing to suggest our elected officials are the ones destroying our country. Does not matter whether they are Democrats or Republican; they are both failing us. When it comes to priorities, I feel their priorities should be: 1. The country should come 1st and any new law or budget ...

It’s not like it was

I am not one to remain silent, as my friends know. I am a retired registered nurse after being a p.m. charge nurse for over 40 years in an 800 bed teaching hospital in the Chicago area. I sadly realize things have changed in nursing and the world since the 1950s and 1960s But having been a ...

‘T’ word appropriate

In attending the well organized and peaceful hands of rally and march in Marquette (recently), I felt a renewed sense of hope and optimism witnessing well over 3,000 citizens protesting what is going on in our country at the direction of President Trump. Whether you voted for him or not, a ...