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Baskets on Ludington Street

EDITOR: I was on Ludington Street today and noticed that there are hanging baskets with flowers, many small trees planted on each block and then on many corners there are giant pots to hold flowers. I can’t even begin to imagine how much each pot cost let alone the cost to fill those pots with potting soil and flowers. I was under the impression the City of Escanaba was hurting for funds and will increase our taxes and wastewater price. The city will have to pay a city employee to water all those trees and flowers and then there is the cost of the wastewater. Where is that money ...

Election fraud

EDITOR: Recently, Republican efforts to severely restrict voter access to the polls in Michigan hit a major snag — election fraud. Tens of thousands of signatures collected on petitions supporting the “Secure MI Vote” referendum were collected by the same group as those found by the Michigan Bureau of Elections and Board of Canvassers on petitions submitted by five Republican candidates for governor to be fraudulent, causing organizers of “Secure MI Vote,” to miss petition submission deadlines. Consequently, the Secretary of State’s office has indicated that the ...

Safety of children

EDITOR: Your June 1st edition carried a most moving letter by Brianna Ecklid regarding the deterioration of safety of our children now face. I agree with her analogy regarding the possibility of attack from the USSR back in the 1960s. I recall, while living in northern Ohio, we would drive to Cleveland for a ball game and pass Nike anti-aircraft batteries along the lake shore. To one as old as Brianna’s daughter is now, this was frightening and incomprehensible. We actually believed the “Duck and Cover” drills back then might be effective. In something as insane (and ...

Protecting schools

EDITOR: This latest and horrible school shooting cannot become the ‘new normal’ for life in this country. I’m not one who thinks ‘taking the guns away’ will solve it. I will point out that President Biden said in his grief stricken speech that “nobody needs and assault rifle, the deer aren’t wearing Kevlar.” He then went on to raise his voice and announce that, “We need to wake up and do something” - the something he speaks about are laws, and banning guns. But laws do not stop people from destroying other people. And certainly guns are not needed to murder our ...

Amish road sign thieves

EDITOR: Someone who knows Someone who took those signs. Someone who isn’t returning the signs or isn’t telling who took them is breaking the law. I don’t imagine someone from downstate came up here to get a few signs. And it’s a shame my neighbors would think of performing a hate crime like that against the Amish. It’s a shame people think an $80 sign is worth endangering motorists and Amish on our roads. Of course there is someone out there reading this laughing. But it boils down to respect, not just for the Amish, or motorists, but our laws. Those signs are not their ...

Our children deserve better

EDITOR: My father grew up near KI Sawyer when he was a boy. During that time, the threat of nuclear war felt so real — so big — that schools would do drills on how to protect themselves if the airbase was ever hit by a nuclear weapon. He told me that even as a child, he knew he was close enough to the blast radius that he would die anyway. Thankfully, that threat never became a reality. Maybe some of you reading this remember that time — maybe you remember hiding under your desk and putting your hands over your head and wondering if that would really make any difference at ...