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Letters To The Editor

Big oil, big problems

August 19, 2008

To the editor: Why are the people of Marquette County and surrounding areas paying a higher cost for fuel than our U.P. neighbors to the south? I can’t believe that it costs that much more to deliver fuel to this area to justify us paying more than 25 cents per gallon than people in Cedar River or the 30 cents per gallon difference people are paying in Menominee. In fact, when the price of a barrel oil went down in recent weeks we saw very little decline in our gas prices. In an area that has one of the highest unemployment rates in Michigan fuel suppliers and gas retailers continue to try and pillage the people of this area. It’s high time the people of this area contact their state representative, Gov. Granholm and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak and have them investigate why this area does not see the same decline as in other areas of the U.P. People of the central U.P., do not let the oil companies get away with taking money out your pocketbook and putting it in theirs.

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Give mine a chance

August 19, 2008

To the editor:

It is a good thing that the mine protesters were not around 150 years ago when iron and copper were discovered. If they were, we would still be a wilderness, and they would have no employment here.

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Mystery noted

August 19, 2008

To the editor:

Back in the late 1980s, while serving as the principal at the Champion Middle School, I loaned four Champion High School trophies to the U.P. Sports Hall.

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Challenge issued

August 18, 2008

To the editor:

As the co-author of “The Buzzards Have Landed: The Real Story of the Flambeau Mine,” I hereby challenge Kennecott’s Jon Cherry to a public debate.

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Using her head

August 17, 2008

While John McCain’s Web site is offering $25 “Obama tire pressure gauges,” his backing up on the energy savings of inflating our tires comes too late to take him seriously.

If he had done his research ...

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Prop worth noting

August 16, 2008

A grassroots group from Hastings called Reform Michigan Government Now met the state requirements to have its petition initiative appear on November’s ballot.

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