A Michigan resident blasted state leaders in a letter to the editor, arguing it’s unfair to heavily tax marijuana users when they can’t legally drive while high — calling instead for higher vehicle taxes to fund better roads. 🚗🌿

👉 Read the full letter and reactions from readers: https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/local-news/michigan/people-paying-weed-tax-cant-even-use-michigans-roads-when-high-letters-to-the-editor/

#Michigan #Marijuana #CannabisTax #Whitmer #LettersToTheEditor #MichiganPolitics #GBSMedia #BWHL #BlueWaterHealthyLiving

“Local news died out,” is often cited as a reason many in the US are so uninformed about ….pretty much everything. I’m lucky to have a pretty good local weekly newspaper, but it also drives me nuts.
If they were my only source of news, I wouldn’t even know that Roe was overturned, but thank god someone’s tracking the price of gas!
Lately, they’ve been accepting FB comments as “letters to the editor”—is this common practice elsewhere?

#localnews #letterstotheeditor

I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y

"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."

PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.

#ScholComm

An interesting read about "transvestites" in the '60s and social ephemera surrounding those exploring such feelings.

Dear Abby was based before based was a thing.
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Reads: Dear Abby
By Abigail Van Buren. 7/9/69

DEAR ABBY: This is for "Too Much Ironing," who com-plained about having to iron her husband's undershorts:

Dear Madam: You really have high-class problems. I wonder if you know how lucky you are? I would gladly iron 7, 10, or 20 pair of shorts every week if my husband would leave my panties alone.

When I first found out that my husband was snitching my panties to wear under his shorts, I was bewildered and sick. How long he had been doing this I didn't know, but I'm sure it must have been most of the 11 years we had been married because when I look back, a lot of things make sense now that didn't some time ago.

My first reaction was to pack my bags and leave him, but there were three good reasons why I staved. They are three adorable children who deserve a father and mother, and as long as God gives me strength, I'll keen my home together until our children are on their own.

I am not a martyr, nor do I enjoy being married to one I consider less than a man. Love and respect for him have flown out the window, and my marriage has become a "job" and nothing more.

So, to "Too Much Ironing," I say, "Keep that iron hot, lady, and don't complain."

"OLD AT 35"

DEAR OLD: Since this problem is so close to you, I am amazed that you have not made an honest effort to learn more about it instead of flatly condemning that which you do not understand.

A man who secretly wears feminine attire is a "transvestite." And though it may seem unbelieveable to you, a transvestite is NOT necessarily a homosexual. So when you describe your husband as something "less than a man" you may be doing him a disservice.

#LGBTQIA #lgbt #transvestite #Newspapers #LettersToTheEditor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The school district in Hannibal is broke. What are we doing about it?
I am writing after attending the Hannibal Public School District monthly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19. 

Our district has been in financial distress for quite some time. This has led to difficult decisions for the current board. As the board navigates through difficult spending decisions, the
https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/2024/12/06/letter-hannibal-schools-broke/
#LettersToTheEditor #Opinion