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Letter to the editor, submitted to info@northernexpress.com Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Update: published Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. "Are northern Michigan workers being paid what they're worth?" a recent Express article asks. Sources included the Networks Northwest Chief Program Officer, the CEO of Traverse Connect and the president of the Northern Lakes Economic Alliance.  Workers being paid less than we are worth are easy to find. Please talk with us for your newspaper articles. Thank you,  [WobblyReporter]

The supposed benefits of running government like a business have been roundly debunked many times over. Woodrow Wilson unsuccessfully pitched the idea  in 1887. But the myth is nowhere more enduring than in rural and small-town America. Here, dividing lines between family, business and government tend to dissolve, leaving us to wonder how real they ever were or are – here or elsewhere. On a rural or semi-rural township board of trustees, several seats are typically held by salaried municipal administrators: clerks, supervisors, treasurers and the like. Most have other significant business interests in the area in some combination to their municipal income. The boards and commissions for Whitewater Township oversee the northeastern corner of Grand Traverse County. Farm pastures, orchards and protected state lands constitute a lot of space in the community, to the general liking of many. Development has been slow more than steady, with regular construction of luxury homes amidst the idyl

Very pleased that this labor of love came to be published in three parts at industrialworker.org Part 1 Western Federation of Miners and the founding of the IWW Colorado and the IWW’s early years The Mountain West and the Fall of the IWW Part 2 A.S. Embree returns to Colorado The rise of IWW Industrial Union 210-220 The Colorado Coal Strike of 1927 begins Part 3 The Colorado Coal Strike of 1927 The Columbine Mine Massacre The end of the Colorado Coal Strike of 1927 IWW in Colorado: Then to now

Letter to the editor, submitted to info@northernexpress.com and letters@record-eagle.com Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Published Aug. 12 and 14, respectively. Public discourse around abortion policy ignores the elephant in the room. To wax righteously about this inalienable right versus that moral principle is to deliberately avoid material reality. A U.S. policy regime without federal abortion protections is one in which some poor people are losing access to abortion, while no rich people are.