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Letters to the Editor

Speed kills

EDITOR: It has become a major problem. There are speed limits. Those are not suggestions. When you are joyriding down Ludington Street by the cemetery at 45 and 50 miles per hour, you should get a ticket. Once you leave the stop light at 5th Avenue North going toward the fairgrounds, there is ...

Escanaba mill employees

EDITOR: For the past month and a half, we as a community have heard about the unsafe conditions of working at the Billerud Paper Mill. The cases of people contracting blastomycosis and the long-term effects this will have on these people’s families are saddening. We understand that there ...

Ford River Township marijuana growing

EDITOR: Our township board approved indoor marijuana growing in our township. I attended the Ford River Planning and Zoning Board workshops on March 15th. The recommended distance from the lawyer who drew up the rules was 500 feet from the neighbor’s property line. The grower who was ...

Commissioner gathering information

EDITOR: I read today where Steve Viau is seeking information about a millage to help my fellow veterans. The Public Act 214,1899 designated 1/10th of a mill be collected to assist veterans, that would be $.10 per thousand dollars of property value. Back in 1899 that was probably a great sum ...

County board meeting

EDITOR: I just finished watching the Delta County Board of Commissioners meeting of the whole which took place on Tuesday evening, March 28. I am mortified and embarrassed to think that this is what is being preserved and made available on YouTube for people everywhere to watch. All of the ...

9.2 billion dollars

EDITOR: The State of Michigan has a surplus of 9.2 billion dollars. That is $9,200,000,000. 92 thousand million. Do you know what that means? It means that the state took more from us taxpayers than was needed. The state is not a company or business. If my company has a good year, we make ...