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Illegal immigration

EDITOR: The autumnal equinox has passed, and fall is upon us. Leaves are turning color and there is a nip in the air. Some parts of the U.P. have already had frost. Time to shake the mothballs out of the warm-woolies. Consider this scenario... A couple bus loads of perhaps 100 illegal aliens each pull into downtown Escanaba… “here ya go! Welcome to da U.P.” If you have watched the thousands of people illegally crossing our southern border (10K yesterday I’ve heard), you’ve noticed they have no possessions and minimal ability at best to communicate. Might as well be naked ...

Illegal immigration

EDITOR: I am old enough to remember Walter Cronkite, the Huntley/Brinkley report, and I was in my teens when Watergate happened. We watched the “news” back then and most everything was pretty straightforward. Now, we have the “news” media that is split; liberal and conservative. For this, I will use CNN/MSNBC as the liberals, and Newsmax/Fox as the conservatives. If you watch the majority of CNN/MSNBC, you will hear every Democrat politician and pundit spout the same talking points and probably never hear about some of the negative stuff. If you watch Newsmax/Fox, you get the ...

No room

EDITOR: A lot of you are aware of a severe shortage of rental properties in Escanaba. There are some solutions, we just have to look “outside the box.” I drive all over town. There are several houses that have sat empty for a couple of decades. I am not sure why. One house is supposed to have asbestos in it. That is the rumor. We rented for 10 years. We spent $40,000 in rent. I think the landlords of that house would have been happy to get any asbestos removed if there had been any. Across the street from the “asbestos house” is a building, office space? Why couldn’t that ...

Environmental activities

EDITOR: Didn’t go to Woodstock, did go to one of the first “Earth Days” (1970) in Ann Arbor. It is not uncommon to hear “Woodstock” as a concept that altered many facets of American life. It is still used as a point of reference in our culture. “Earth Day… not so much, even though it is generally accepted as the origin of the ecological (now “green”) movement. I’ve been following environmental activities for over 50 years and cannot recall a headline touting its successes. “Environmental Mandate Credited for Improvement in (fill in the blank)” has never been ...

Recall effort

EDITOR : The group seeking to recall three county commissioners has stated that we are being recalled because of unethical behavior. They’ve indicated that if there was any chance for change, there would be no recall needed. Let me put things into context, I was elected chairman of the board on January 3 of 2023. By January 25 three weeks later, Kelly VanGinhovens put two letters to the editor in the Daily Press claiming I was doing a terrible job as chairman. Really, after three weeks, that doesn’t give me much of a learning curve. Citizens for Ethical Leadership in Delta ...

Escanaba roads

EDITOR: Let me say up front, I do not have a problem with the guys actually doing the work; driving the trucks, digging the ditches, that is brutal work at times. My problem is who is “in charge” of those workers, the supervisors/management, whatever. I think it was three years ago that Escanaba was told to dig up a perfectly good water system because Flint pulled a stupid move trying to save money. Esky has lead in their pipes. Testing indicated that it was inconsequential. Not a worry. Not much happened since, except they tore up Stephenson Ave. This whole summer, two years on ...