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Age is relative

Age is relative

To the editor: How old is too old? It seems everyone’s idea of age is different. With many octogenarians leading productive lives and never considered too old, I think it’s time to recognize that age is relative. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

Solar woes

To the editor: In a recent Enterprise we learned that one of Commissioner Melinda Lautner’s many objections to accepting the $1.5 million grant on offer to our county for the installation of solar panels is that the panels will be near a jail. “Concern about the proximity of the proposed solar array to the county jail,” arises in Ms Lautner’s mind, as “schools and other community groups may be allowed to visit the site for education.” Excuse me? What am I missing here? Are we worried that the convicts will get out and harm the poor unsuspecting students while the students are on a field trip? Or that they will leer at the students from the windows of their jail cells, causing them irreparable trauma? Or that the students might see the jail and take up a life of crime? Can anyone make sense of any of this? Mark Smith Leland. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

Thank you, Pence

Thank you, Pence

To the editor: I owe former Vice President Pence a debt of gratitude. On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence remained at our nation’s capitol to complete the day’s business of certifying the 2020 election results. 03/20/2024 05:09 PM

Do they care?

To the editor: The GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union address was a vapid, emotionally overacted, Sally Struthers-like performance completely devoid of content. That party putting their chosen representative, a woman, in a kitchen says everything we need to know about their wished for reversion to an imagined golden past. 03/13/2024 11:46 PM

Solar panels over parking lots?

Solar panels over parking lots?

To the editor: A recent Enterprise letter to the editor (March 7th) criticized the idea of putting in solar energy at the Leelanau County Government Center, and specifically called out mounting some of them as carports over parking areas. Another letter pointed out— correctly— that although solar panel output is reduced by cloud cover here, installations eventually pay back more than they cost. 03/13/2024 11:46 PM

Reproductive health

Reproductive health

To the editor: Voters need to know that Republicans intend to undermine all aspects of women’s reproductive rights, all of which a majority of Americans strongly approve. For example, the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) decision by the Alabama Supreme Court making embryos created through the IVF process “Persons”, landed like a lead balloon. 03/13/2024 11:46 PM

Appalled by intolerance

Appalled by intolerance

To the editor: In a letter published in the Enterprise, county board member Kama Ross laments that she is “continually disheartened by public comment … and letters to the editor from county residents who do not check their facts before sharing their views.” She was elected. I am appalled at her lack of tolerance for opinions that disagree with hers. 03/13/2024 11:46 PM

Do the smart thing

Do the smart thing

To the editor: After reading the solar energy article on the front page, Feb. 29, I felt a need to respond to the “controversy” aspect of it. 03/13/2024 11:46 PM

Inflection Point

Inflection Point

To the editor: “Inflection point” notes that significant events or conditions will determine future directions and define future reality. Our country is now considering the election, for president, of a person who is demanding that his accolytes refuse to approve a border solution that they have united across the aisle to achieve, so he can use border conditions as a campaign issue. 02/14/2024 04:44 PM

Diminished faculties

Diminished faculties

To the editor: In response to the letter extolling President Biden’s age as an asset, we might be more open to the idea if he could find his way off a stage by himself or complete a sentence without a teleprompter. This week Biden’s own DOJ through its Special Counsel determined that despite a slam dunk legal case (willfully mishandling classified documents), he couldn’t be convicted by a jury, because Joe Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory and diminished faculties.” Global threats have grown exponentially since Biden’s inauguration. 02/14/2024 04:44 PM

Reason for optimism

Reason for optimism

To the editor: While economies in Europe, China, and Japan are slowing, the U.S. economy grew 3.3% in the fourth quarter last year. 02/14/2024 04:44 PM

Social worker tax

Social worker tax

To the editor: In response to the letter from Judge Kromkowski, there is no doubt that she cares about children, but the Parenting Communities program itself does little if anything to help working families in Leelanau County. The early child millage would be better named “the social worker tax,” because it does not provide one cent for childcare in the traditional sense. 02/14/2024 04:44 PM

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