To the editor:
Issues are local when:
• Cuts at National Parks impact local businesses which rely on attendance at Sleeping Bear;
• VA cuts impact services our local vets rely on;
• Your neighbor, through administrative error, and without due process, is sent to a Central American gulag because your government acted with malevolence;
• Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration increase your costs as wait time for cheaper generic drugs is extended;
• Your freedom of speech and that of your local news outlet is stifled because the government does not like what you or they say;
• Cuts in weather services impact the access of forecasts for local farmers;
• The economy is in free fall, through uninformed and capacious acts by the President, sending Leelanau families reeling, upping the cost of living and depleting savings;
• Cuts in education negatively impact county students’ learning; • Cuts in science impact the treatments and vaccines available to you and me;
• Tariffs on a host of countries and goods hit our county’s farmers and seniors hard, resulting in a receding economy where your son or daughter is laid off or cannot find that first employment.
Protect Freedom of Speech and ensure the Just Rule of Law.
Robert Shirkey Northport
Editor's note: We agree
