To the Journal editor: A few days ago, I learned that regular gas in Michigan now averages $4.28 per gallon. I worked in a gas station in 1960. At that time gas often sold for about 30 cents per gallon. I have often wondered how that compares with today's prices? Here is what I found when I ...

To the Journal editor: I think I understand why politicians don’t play nice. They’re all sort of play acting. They pump out an endless stream of little stylized dramas with stereotypical good guys and bad guys in order to get potential voters periodically enraged, loosely engaged, ...

To the Journal editor: Hey, Paul Grobar, (April 22 Letter to the Editor, The Mining Journal), what fantasy world are you living in? The Democrats are the ones creating jobs, rebuilding the infrastructure, lowering drug costs, and making health care more affordable. They're the adults in the ...

To the Journal editor: Democracy at its most basic level means rule by the people. Further, democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership and major undertakings are directly or indirectly decided by the people. Access to free and fair elections is the corner stone ...

To the Journal editor: We are the American Legion, Auxiliary and Sons of the Legion. We belong to Lillian Larson Post #114 Greenwood in West Ishpeming. We wish to thank our community for their continued support. e have always placed veterans and children and youth as our priority projects. ...

To the Journal editor: As a disillusioned twenty-something in the 1970s, I fell hard for the hippy philosophy that life should be one big party: personal expression without social restraint, money without work, sex without consequence and drugs without restriction. Little did I imagine, in ...