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Letters 11-26-2012

Nov. 25, 2012

Disapproves of model

There are elections, and there are elections... Northern Express launched a get out to vote link for aspiring Playboy Miss Social, Christina Dronkowski. She is an ambitious bunny, a poolside cocktail waitress, model, and nursing student.

If she wins, she promises that her influence as a Social Bunny will help children’s hospitals, Homes for Humanity, bullying, and other good causes. She states this is a non-nude contest she is participating in, which assures the readership of her modesty. She will be bending over for the camera with some clothing on. She will be cast with other lovely young women in Playboy who are happy to show all for the right price. Gentlemen, you will not be disappointed.

Northern Express is kind enough to support a contest in a porn magazine and urges us to vote so we can help Christina win the prestigious Playboy Miss Social award. Maybe one day her portrait will hang in the corridors of Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, the homeless will champion her name, and we will have better world to live in.

Or maybe men will be masturbating to her picture when no one is watching them, which seems more likely. After all, this is what pornography like Playboy is about.

How thoughtful of Northern Express to link us up with a wrist magazine.

Maybe contests in Maxim or Hustler will be next. Or maybe Northern Express can feature a local Hooter’s waitress or pole dancer and we can vote for our favorite, as long as they promise to use their influence "˜as winner’ to do good, and wear a little something.

Northern Express: Please do not mainstream pornography. For many of us – men, women, and children–objectification of women and girls causes tremendous harm.

Respect your readership.

Brigita Gumsey - Cedar

Tough on local biz

So the new CVS Pharmacy has opened at Front and Division in TC. No big deal -- new players create healthy competition that benefits the fittest. My concern is over the fact that they are getting a liquor license. How is that even possible when the local stores struggle to get the few that become available?

Running a small business in this area is hard enough and the competition in this area of town is friendly among the local stores. Obviously, everyone is entitled to build a business where they want and I find these giant box stores convenient, but where did this liquor license come from? How did it get approved when there are already a handful being used within a few city blocks?

Do we really need more booze in more places? I’m sure the small guys will survive as they have for generations but let's not make it more difficult to prosper. SHOP LOCAL.

George Nemetz - TC

Protect school districts

Public education is just that, public. House Bill 6004 that the Michigan House is considering would create a statewide school district that is run by gubernatorial appointees rather than a local board or even our elected state board of education.

This goes against the very principle of a publicly accountable school district and education. Our students and their future are too important to turn into a political football. I strongly oppose House Bill 6004 and the loss of locally controlled schools. I hope our legislators will do the same.

John Thiel - Roscommon

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