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Letters to the Editor

Gas Prices

EDITOR: Monday, July 11, drove to Green Bay. When we left Escanaba, we had a full tank. In Menominee the Holiday Station was $4.41 a gallon Krist Oil was 4.39. A mile away in Marinette, Krist Oil was $4.02, and Kwik Trip was $4.03. 40 cents a gallon less in Wisconsin. Why? It was another 30 ...

Humane capitalism

EDITOR: President Biden’s critics complain that his administration is veering toward “socialism,” the scare word used by those who opposed Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, the Affordable Care Act and other legislation enacted to help ordinary Americans. Biden’s ...

McBroom should testify

EDITOR: The Iron Mountain Daily News reported on June 18th that our State Senator, Ed Mc Broom acknowledged his refusal to appear in person, before the United States Senate Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His testimony as the chairperson of the ...

Endorsement for Prestin

I, John Malnar, as Delta County commissioner, am endorsing Dave Prestin for 108th House of Representative. I have sat on the same board (Delta Menominee County Public Health) with Dave for two years. He has shown leadership on this board. Dave will do a great job and will see that the Upper ...

Poor attendance

EDITOR: To the community of Rock, and Maple Ridge Township, we were disappointed that we only had three individuals who took the time to attend the Flag Day ceremony at the veterans memorial. The ceremony included the proper disposal of retired American flags, by honorably burning ...

A conundrum

EDITOR: The American Heritage Dictionary defines a conundrum as a “problem admitting of no satisfactory solution, [or] a difficult and complicated problem, [or, a] riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.” One of these problems is “lost” money in the thousands. So ...