Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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To the Editor: The citizens of Bessemer, Ramsay and Bessemer Township are asked to vote on May 6 for a revised bond allowing the Bessemer Area School District to make necessary upgrades. These upgrades will allow our schools to become more energy efficient, secure and technologically sound. In 2013, the citizens of Bessemer were asked to vote on a $6.9 million bond to allow our district to upgrade the schools. I went to the school board and town hall meetings. I met the engineers from Johnson Controls and was impressed. However, I could not...
To the Editor: The Bessemer Education Association took great offense to Kim Wright’s swipe at the reputation of Bessemer Area Schools and the community of Bessemer as a whole. The Bessemer school community excels at educating students and supporting its school. This is proven by Bessemer students’ consistent high scores on state standardized tests, national recognition and reputation as top school of choice in the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District. Wright has spread misinformation and ignored facts. The BEA is questioning his com...
To the Editor: I am writing this letter from both the perspective as a mother with three kids in the Bessemer Area School District and as a teacher. It is our responsibility as citizens of Bessemer to make sure our students have schools where they can feel and be safe. We need to vote on May 6 regarding the Bessemer referendum. On March 27 we had a lockdown. Everything went well. After it was over the kids had many questions, and I did all I could to answer them as honestly as possible. On May 6 the people of Bessemer must vote regarding the...
To the Editor: I am writing in response to the March 27 article that reported on the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners action to increase the salary of elected and appointed County officials by $750. The increase amounts to $.50 per hour when compared to the hours other county employees work each year. I find this decision concerning in light of the position the board took this past December when they asked the non-elected and appointed represented employees to accept a wage freeze for 2014, citing a dwindling fund balance, reductions in...
To the Editor: Regarding your headline and news story in the Saturday, March 22, edition: “Poll: 81 percent of Iron County supports mine.” Really? A poll done by a partisan Republican strategy group? Seeing as the Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature and Gov. Scott Walker are all in on Gogebic Taconite’s mine, is the Tarrance Group impartial enough to do polling on this matter? You do not disclose what the question format was, which of course makes all the difference in any poll. The Daily Globe ran a story in September 2013 about...
To the Editor: I was impressed with a letter by Mary Calgaro published on March 7. “Lately, it is very apparent that the individual feels quite helpless with our own government doing its own thing, ignoring the people and the Constitution. The citizenry always has to be watchful of big government in an effort to keep our freedoms. The local government is now our best option for sustaining any resemblance of a ‘free’ society,” Calgaro wrote. I believe the only way to solve this dilemma is to stop corporations and other big money interes...
To the Editor: I’m a member of the Bessemer Area School Board. I support consolidation of our schools. Our population is declining. The source for this information is from the Daily Globe’s 2013 Community Resource Guide. On page 6, census information states Gogebic’s population was estimated at 16,084 in 2012, down 2.1 percent from the 2010 census of 16,247, down from 17,370 people in the 2000 census. Other state studies estimate population will continue to decline in Gogebic County until 2020, if not longer. As a result, we have decli...
To the Editor: Every day, our providers at Aspirus Grand View stand ready to care for all those in our community during their time of need, having been entrusted to respond not only with great skill but also with great compassion. We are proud to call these providers our partners, thanking them each day for their selfless contributions, service and commitment to health and especially recognizing them on National Doctors’ Day, Sunday, March 30. Our patients are cared for by providers with extensive training and exceptional credentials from t...
To the Editor: I believe Bessemer Area Schools Superintendent Dave Radovich may have misled the voters in his letter to the editor published March 21. Bessemer parents would not cede total control of their schools in consolidation. Bessemer parents would still have a voice and a vote in a consolidated district. As a parent of two Bessemer School District students, I would have no problem with either or both my children traveling to another campus. There is money to be saved or repurposed in a consolidated district. Currently there are two...
To the Editor: Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion in the upcoming Iron County Board of Supervisors election. Although this is my first time running for any public office, as a concerned citizen of Iron County and a Hurley resident for 25 years, I have much to offer. As an anti-mine candidate, I feel that our county board needs a supervisor that opposes this proposed mine. The balance between tough decisions on the mine that will ultimately make an impact on our community needs to be addressed. The seriousness behind these...
To the Editor: To me, it was a no-brainer in the early 1980s to opt for hitchhiking. My 1970 vehicle was good for only 12 miles to the gallon, highway mileage. Previous bus rides to and from Detroit, with all their stops, had been done to more than my fill. Air travel would have been great, but would have cut into the compensation money I was receiving when the company I worked for had gone out of business. In parts of 1982 and 1983, looking for a job, I had thumbed a total of more than 8,000 miles, consisting of at least 100 rides — eight f...
To the Editor: About 10 years ago, I was searching for people interested in putting up informational signs at historic mine shafts and headframes in Ironwood. I found people with this same goal when the Friends of the Miners Memorial Heritage Park was formed. As a member of this wonderful group, I give my views on signage and help preserve the rich history the mines played in the development of Ironwood and the Gogebic Range. As the elected historian for the FMMHP, I work with people who share my interests and dedication, and we work together...
To the Editor: Our Iron County Board overwhelmingly approves committee recommendations with little discussion of the full board. While it makes meetings quick and easy, some necessary questions are not being handled properly. The board admits to not reading or knowing what they were signing with the lease for Gogebic Taconite. I was at the yearly budget meeting, which lasted less than 20 minutes, accepted with very few questions. At the candidates’ forum in Hurley, my representative said he likes having the work done in committees because he d...
To the Editor: My brother’s wife is enduring the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and he is suffering in his own way along with her. How he has managed his time as a caregiver is almost beyond comprehension. His patience, often tried, requires a supreme effort in order to deal with someone he loves, who once returned that love, but now is a stranger living in their home. She is sometimes grateful, more often spiteful, and on occasion prone to violence. As a matter of convenience, let’s call my sister-in-law Karen. Karen came into our famil...
To the Editor: I’m a member of the Bessemer Area School Board. I proudly support consolidation with the Wakefield-Marenisco School District. Consolidation means greater opportunity for all of our students. Many people want it. Bessemer’s school board doesn’t. They have another agenda. Bessemer’s school board wants taxpayer approval of a highly questionable bond proposal. Taxpayers don’t want it. We can’t afford it. Voters said no last year, loud and clear. Bessemer’s school board wasn’t listening. State transition funds are available if consoli...
To the Editor: All of us in Bessemer are confident and proud that our schools rank among the region’s best. That’s quite a testament to the teachers and parents that make education such a high priority for our students. But the job of educating our kids becomes more difficult every year. Our two schools have old and very inefficient mechanical and lighting systems and building controls, roofs and windows that have become excessively expensive to continue repairing. They are wasting energy and money that could be used to help educate our stu...
To the Editor: America’s government, over 200 years now, has outlasted all others because it is based on the power of the individual through the voting system and the Constitution. The foundation serves us well when we adhere to it. Other countries have tried to bring America down to their level of life. Now we have tyranny within our federal government ignoring our Constitutional laws and the abuse of power with a new form of a lawless government. We have fallen into the trap set before us in that of giving access of our personal everything w...
To the Editor: This is in response to the letter to the editor published on Tuesday, Feb. 18, about the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce missing the Ironwood Snowmobile Olympus. The Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce is proud of the Ironwood Snowmobile Olympus and the crew that supports it. Unfortunately, we aren’t in a position to give money to organizations and events due to insufficient funds. We would have been happy to attend and pass out information on Ironwood, but we would have needed to become a financial sponsor in order to do so. W...
To the Editor: In response to the Wisconsin State Journal editorial published in the Daily Globe on Feb. 21, regarding “Europe should drop cheesy demand.” It is not about mozzarella cheese curds, it is about socialistic globalization and one world government. It is about the U.S. giving away our hard-earned independence. The U.S. never comes out ahead on any of these free trade agreements. In my opinion, the two Bushes, Clinton and now Obama have done their best to give America away. Wake up, America. The sacrifices of many who fought for our...
To the Editor: In response to a letter to the editor dated Feb. 27: The meals provided by the Aging Unit of Iron County’s nutrition program are funded in part by Title III-C of the federal Older Americans Act. Since enactment in 1965, the Older Americans Act has emphasized dignity of older persons by requiring that older persons be allowed to contribute towards the planning and administering of aging programs, as well as the cost of services. Each provider of Older Americans Act services shall provide each older person with an opportunity to v...
To the Editor: I would like to thank the city crew and staff of the city of Ironwood for the good job they are doing with thawing frozen water lines and fighting the snow and ice. With our crazy snowstorms and freezing temperatures, it has been a battle. Everyone at the city has pitched in, changing their normal jobs and helping the residents that have been without water. Many people complain about what is going on with the snow and water problems, but I would like to thank the city employees for their efforts and for working long hours with...
To the Editor: I attended the Feb. 20 board meeting of the Aging Unit of Iron County. Speaking as one who was raised in Hurley and moved to Mercer, Wis., in 1957 — and worked closely with the Aging Unit years ago — I could not believe what I saw and heard. To think anyone in their right mind would arbitrarily cut off meals in the dead of winter to an elderly disabled man living in poverty is beyond my comprehension. For the executive director of the Aging Unit to drop someone from the meals program without a careful evaluation of that per...
To the Editor: The Gogebic-Iron County Airport Board recommends Air Choice One, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., over Great Lakes Airlines, which has also entered a bid, as the carrier for Ironwood under the Essential Air Service program. The board made their decision prior to holding an open public meeting on Feb. 13, where some air travelers said Air Choice One’s lack of a baggage-checking option with connecting flights is a deal breaker. We were told that such an agreement between Air Choice and full-service airlines was unlikely. With A...
To the Editor: I find it interesting that the state government spent in excess of $200,000 to protect a farmer’s cattle from wolves. According to a January 2014 Associated Press news article, MLive.com said it made the estimate based on documents it reviewed. Much of the expense was in administrative time and field work, besides about $38,000 in cash for cattle-loss claims by Ontonagon County farmer John Koski and other assistance. Brian Roell of the Department of Natural Resources said “Koski has taken few, if any, steps to deal with los...
To the Editor: During the so-called “polar vortex” of December, and the continuing brutality of the current season, I am reminded of an old friend of mine, a member of one of the nations within our nation. He once told me that his people never asked one “How old are you?,” but rather, “How many winters have you?” Having spent most of my winters in northern climes, I have come to value this time of year, not only as a character builder but a true test of my Scandinavian heritage. I grew up in Minnesota, where there was evidently no such thing...
