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Gas prices

EDITOR: Are you as angry as I am? Probably not. My business runs on gas. Currently, Escanaba area gas prices are $3.34.9 a gallon. There might be some station that is a little more, or a little less, but I am using that as my standard. Yesterday I went to Marinette. Menominee prices were $3.11. Marinette was $3.02. Marinette is Wisconsin, so, maybe different taxes, or other reasons. Menominee is Michigan. There is no valid reason for the price to be 22 cents difference. I ran a gas station for six years. I had 30,000 gallons storage, in ground. Most deliveries were at least 10,000 ...

What’s the delay?

EDITOR: Some time ago, last year, everything was set. All of the environmental clearances, zoning approval, city council approval, etc., was done. They were going to start demolition in the spring. Spring came. A big roll-off dumpster was brought in. fences were put up. Then, nothing. The dumpster disappeared, fencing disappeared. Then a story appeared a couple of weeks ago that indicated that the approval is still pending. I don’t remember the story completely. I just thought it was strange that nothing has been done. The property should have been cleared by now and foundations ...

County race

EDITOR: The First Amendment we cherish as Americans is not absolute. It provides us with the right to address those who govern us… at all levels. Your “right” exists until it meets the fuzzy line between you and someone who may be injured by the exercise of that right. This has been argued for years and ultimately requires the function of the third arm of government to pass judgement on who shall prevail. All forms of communication are subject to “unwritten” social borders. Simply “Thou shalt not lie”… speak or represent the truth. Withholding facts and truths that ...

Political parties

EDITOR: Fran Majestic’s letter of 6/25 recognizes “all voters … have the opportunity to decide the party’s candidates (and) to build party unity…” Admirable and responsible. However, she does not mention that not all candidates are “responsible” or at least ethical in their stated party affiliations. Interesting how commissioners Malnar and Viau missed the sentiment and demonstrated little, if any support for their fellow Republican commissioners in vital votes. Party unity? It is generally accepted that a party member demonstrates loyalty to the philosophy and basic ...

A dictatorship

EDITOR: My travels started when I was 18, after my graduation from high school, I worked as a salesman-auditor for Northrup - King Inc, leaving Minnesota, my home state, to work in Detroit and then West Virginia. Although Lyndon B. Johnson had passed the 1964 Civil Rights act, Jim Crow laws were alive and well in West Virginia. Coming from a Scandinavian back ground, I quickly learned how cruel people can be to those of a different color. Did the blacks in West Virginia live in fear? More than I could believe. Discrimination and bigotry die slowly. And this was a democracy. Today, ...

Party switch

EDITOR: Have you heard President Trump refer to RINOs (Republican In Name Only)? There are many local examples of this, but the most obvious is Matt Jensen running as a Republican for County Commissioner. First, he ran as a Democrat in 2016 for Wells Twp Supervisor, then he ran as an Independent in the recall election. Then, if you still weren’t sure of where Matt’s true allegiance was, as a county commissioner he nominated Kelli VanGinhoven, who is probably the most liberal elected official in the UP, to vice-chair of the Delta County Commission. That certainly was not the action ...