LETTERS/OPINIONS
Transgender teens
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3 percent of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported a range from 1.2 percent to 2.7 percent.
We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America’s 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It’s gotten to the …
Lakeland Times: Our View
The Christmas season arrives every year with its stubborn insistence, quite like the sudden ringing of a bell on a quiet street, stopping us in our tracks to take a look around. It reminds us, with its cold weather and warm beverages, its white snow and bright lights, its soft …
Reader laments ‘Christ-less’ Christmas concert
To the Editor: Isn’t the birth of Jesus the reason we celebrate Christmas? My heart was crying as I left the “Winter Concert 2025,” to see my great-granddaughter in pre K. Yes, the kids were all excited and happy and they did an awesome job. But not one song included, …
Rob Reiner and Donald Trump
At first, when I saw it on Facebook, I thought someone had fallen for some AI slop, was reposting “fake news.” Even President Donald Trump could not be that tasteless. He could be. He is. This is the full post: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob …
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The dumbest assumption in all of politics
One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies — pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or …
‘Beyond incompetence’ near Glidden
To the Editor: While reading the Dec. 5 Lakeland Times Our View about the Thanksgiving, plowing “fiasco,” I couldn’t help but have flashbacks when I lived and worked for two townships near Glidden.
Split screen: Another weekend of murder, here and abroad
Historians considering the state of American depravity will doubtless pause to reflect on the remarkable support in certain quarters for accused killer Luigi Mangione, charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk last year. Mangione was caught on video pumping bullets into Thompson, a father of two, …
A human swastika
They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika — and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf Hitler calling for the …
Lakeland Times: Our View
At a December 4 Oneida County Public Works Committee meeting, during which the county’s disastrous response to the season’s first major snowfall was discussed, supervisor Billy Fried uttered what may have been the most revealing sentence of the entire 45-minute deliberation.
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Lakeland Times: Our View
The modern Democratic Party likes to present itself as the steady hand of science: calm, rational, and data-driven. But let’s be clear. There’s absolutely nothing steady or even sane going on in the Democratic Party. Its hands tremor from the intoxication of bureaucratic power. Its body writhes and convulses from …
Who’s calling the shots?
The news on Friday morning that a CDC panel is now recommending that newborns not be vaccinated for Hepatitis B is frightening. As The New York Times put it, “the divisiveness and dysfunction surrounding the decision raised questions about the reliability of that process — and the future of the …
‘It’s great living in a small town’
To the Editor: On Dec. 1 my husband went out and started our car, swept off the snow and came back into the house. Five minutes later he went out and rushed back ... saying the car’s on fire, call 911. As soon as I called Oneida County, they said …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Wisconsin has never lacked for political passion, and that’s an understatement. From the Progressive era’s dismantling of the patronage system to Scott Walker’s toppling of public-sector unions that provoked tumultuous protests, the state’s residents are ready to have a go on almost any issue at almost any time, and from …
Thank You Sheriff Joe Fath!
To the Editor: After more than four decades of dedicated service, Vilas County Sheriff Joe Fath will be retiring this December. As someone who has known Sheriff Fath for many years, I want to take a moment to publicly thank him for his extraordinary commitment to the people of Vilas …
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