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Delta County is in jeopardy

EDITOR: Delta County is under attack from within by the chairman of the board of commissioners. He is on an ego trip, making decisions based on his private interests, not the interests of the citizens. He announces what the board will do on the radio before any discussions, motions, or votes. Then he brings it to the board, insulting the intelligence of the public, by pretending to deliberate. He has one of his two like-minded commissioners make a motion, the other seconds, and they vote 3 /2. But this is all pretense since the decision had already been made. At the very first ...

Escanaba Township

EDITOR: To get to the point. I am struggling. I have lived all but five months of my almost 70 years if life in Escanaba Township. To see it being brought to it knees by selfish, self-serving people is horrific to me. To see land that was deemed ecologically unsound for solar fields be brought back to the table is so unethical. To ruin a whole community and put us all in dire straights because of selfishness to me is unconscionable. It hurts my heart. It hurts my head. I can’t understand it. This is what our current Delta County Board of Commissioners is doing. Donna M. ...

Letter response

EDITOR: Michael Glass’s recent letter to the editor (May 19) is an equal-opportunity offender. Each paragraph manages to say something derogatory and/or diametrically opposed to the reality of what is happening. Let me elaborate: Paragraph one talks about the need for deliberations in decision making. Has Mr. Glass been watching or attending the meetings? Time and time again, the only deliberation comes because Commissioner Viau asks for clarification of an issue that they are preparing to vote on with little or no discussion. As for the firing of Emily DeSalvo, he questions why ...

Annexation of Escanaba and Cornell Townships

EDITOR: I was raised in Escanaba Township and moved away to pursue my career in environmental sciences for government agencies and a environmental consulting firm. I have lived away from this beautiful peninsula for over 25 years and always made it home each and every year. I have since retired back home eight years ago. I have seen first-hand what industrial development can do to our beautiful land. I have heard the lengths that individuals have gone through to force this solar complex on us the citizens of Delta County. Individuals who have taken an oath of office to do no harm. No ...

Email messages

EDITOR: Citizens of Delta County be warned: If you wish to communicate your displeasure with County Commissioners Moyle, Barron, or Petersen, there is a very good chance that your messages may be shared and an effort made to publicly humiliate you at commission meetings. As most people have likely heard by now, there is a group of concerned citizens who are actively working on a plan to issue a recall of these three commissioners due to their unethical actions. The group recently launched an email campaign asking members to send a daily message to each of the three, politely asking ...

Line 5 response

EDITOR: Line 5: Tom Grant makes some excellent points regarding Line 5 first. “The current plant line is getting old (75 years) under the Straits of Mackinac.” “At the present time the pipelines are okay unless another boat drops anchor and causes a hole. A freighter did in fact snag the pipeline with its anchor already. Tom also states, “at the present time, if the pipelines sprung a leak, skilled divers would need to be flown in to repair the pipeline.” How could “skilled divers” be flown in during “a bad weather storm with wind and snow and the bridge is shut down ...