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By Tim Skubick

‘Wacky’ time in the state capital

This is a wacky time of the year around these parts. Members of the house are itching to get the heck out of here to run for reelection back home which is Job One for them. The onlyproblemisJob Onefor you, if you want any state services, is for them to spend $80 billion of your tax dollars first. That includes everything from state cops to janitors at your local school and everything in between. 05/29/2024 05:59 PM

Vote ‘no’ on millage

Vote ‘no’ on millage

To the editor: It will be up to voters to stop the rapid expansion and spending of the Leelanau County democratically controlled board of commissioners. Voters will have their first opportunity in the August primary election by voting “no” on an unneeded Parenting Communities Millage being advertised as the “children’s millage.” The board has an extra $1.1 million in property tax income that so far has not been budgeted. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Discussions in public

Discussions in public

To the editor: At a Board of Commissioner meeting a county attorney explained that commissioners must hold their discussions in front of the public. This is a basic part of open government, because if commissioners talk among themselves outside of the meeting citizens don’t have a chance to participate in the decision-making process. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Thank you

To the editor: We wish to express our gratitude on behalf of our entire family at the passing of our brother, uncle, neighbor and friend. Your kind expressions of sympathy, words of comfort, mass cards, Spiritual bouquets, flowers and the large spray of flowers were kindly appreciated. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Thank you

To the editor: The family of Elinor Swenson would like to thank many people during her illness and passing. Thank you to Munson Hospital, Doctors and Nurses, Martinson Funeral Home, First Lutheran Church Ladies Aide Society and relatives and friends who sent memorials, flowers, cards and food. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

What we have…need

What we have…need

To the editor: Following the local news & other sources, I’ve come to a conclusion; we’re in BIG trouble in our county government. Some of our elected officials aren’t performing their positions as stated. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

A column by Zachary Marano

Rain brings back memories of Mom

I moved to Traverse City for work in April 2023, so this has been the second time I’ve watched Leelanau County’s cherry trees blossom. It’s been wonderful watching the buds on the trees diffuse into what seem to be fluffy clouds rolling over the hills. I wish the trees wouldn’t shed their white petals so quickly and I could see them reflected in the water from across Suttons Bay all summer. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Remember on Memorial Day

Remember on Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend is always a big deal here in Leelanau County. Among other things, it marks the beginning of the busiest season of the year for everyone, visitors, locals and business owners alike. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

By Tim Skubick

Dark clouds on the horizon

To be sure they were not popping the champagne corks and singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” In fact they called the event “boring.” Yet the prognosticators reported that Michigan’s economy is “strong and stable,” and when quizzed about any dark clouds on the horizon, they uniformly dismissed it as, it not, folly, darn close to it. Such was the lead story out of the gathering of the state’s top drawer bean counters/economists whose vital job is to predict how the state is growing and how much moola lawmakers will have to play with as they orchestrate the writing of the new state budget. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

Church and state

Church and state

To the editor: It was written in a recent paper that we need to keep religion out of the White House citing Thomas Jefferson’s words “separation of church and state” as justification. But a history lesson is needed. 05/22/2024 04:45 PM

By Tim Skubick

Fewer attending college despite scholarships

If you build it they will come but if you offer high school kids a hefty bonus for going to college, many won’t come. Such is the rather amazing finding that despite a state scholarship program dangling upwards of $5,500 a year to attend a four year university, 62% of last year’s high school graduating class found something else to do rather than pursue a higher education. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

‘No’ to reparations

‘No’ to reparations

To the editor: The Civil War ended 159 years ago, yet today some blue states and cities are considering reparations to the descendants of slaves. This means taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves. 05/15/2024 05:44 PM

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