The Wednesday, March 12, edition of the Alpena News contained a commentary column “Protect Schools From Cuts” authored by Alexandra Stamm of the Michigan League for Public Policy. Ms. Stamm was complaining about the expected funding cuts to the budget of the federal Department of Education ...

The U.S. Congress must reject President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and undermine the foundation of public education in this country. We have witnessed countless attacks on public education at the hands of this president and his ...

If President Musk and his DOGE team really want to root out waste, fraud and abuse within the Federal Government, I suggest they start by pink-slipping Congressman Jack Bergman and staff. Aside from not having held a constituent town hall for over eight years, they’ve delivered little to ...

So we now have a king who resides (temporarily) in the White House for four more years, unless HE decides to stay for four more years, who is not smart enough to realize that he is being played by a cunning former KGB agent, who wants to reduce the federal workforce force who he thinks do ...

A member of the Alpena Public Schools board recently proposed a change to school policy regarding the process used to respond to complaints. The complaints in this case seemed to be about certain books kept in the school libraries. The change would simply give three members of the board the ...

To the editor and readers of the Alpena News, I am writing to ask you to protect our nation’s economy from destruction by Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s illegal chainsaw cuts. To limit myself to 300 words, I won’t elaborate on how Trump has destroyed the U.S.’s name among the free ...