LETTERS/OPINIONS
I'm just asking: is free speech still free?
To the Editor: I’m just asking: I’m just asking. When does free speech not become free speech anymore? This has been an extremely controversial subject.
What does Russia want?
Russia’s war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a few kilometers of Kyiv, and Western powers offered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exit from the country.
Sheer lunacy
What do you do when you’ve screwed up so badly that any competent president would be demanding your resignation? Easy. Attack women.
Reader rejects ego over empathy
To the Editor: Your recent Our View piece made me wish all over again that you would always offer, in your paper, front and center, a counterpoint Our View piece, in service to facts and truth.
Reader finds irony in Times postal complaint
To the Editor: I find it ironic that The Lakeland Times, ardent acolyte to Trump and the GOP, is complaining of bad mail service when it was Trump, during his last year in office, who was instrumental in installing the post office board of governors that nominated Louis DeJoy as …
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Reader criticizes Times for overlooking rally voices
To the Editor: I participated in the “No Kings Rally” held at Veteran’s Park in Minocqua on April 19. The temps were in the low 40s but over 200 concerned citizens showed up to peacefully express their concerns about the present threat to democracy and its impact on the citizenry.
Navigating the wake of reality and regulation
To the Editor: Response to the opinion piece “Let’s regulate wake boats with facts, not misinformation” by William Banholzer, in the April 18 edition of The Lakeland Times. Thank you for contributing to this “hot topic.”
Detonating democracy: The threat of obsolete laws
Wars end. Bombs remain. In December 2020, the crew of an English fishing boat was pulling in a string of crab pots 22 miles northeast of Cromer, a town in Norfolk, England, when they noticed a tug on the main line. An explosion blew the Galwad-Y-Mor into the air, injuring …
The cabinet of clowns
There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired. The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say. He was stunningly unqualified for the job in …
Lakeland Times: Our View
When Donald Trump was re-elected last November, Democrats were suddenly in a sweat about potential political persecution and retribution aimed at them, and many of them worried aloud that they might be soon escorted from the comforts of their ideological thrones to the realities of an aluminum throne and a …
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Nourish to flourish
To the Editor: All three Forest County school districts currently offer no-cost breakfast and lunch to all students. The program that provides this service is called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Crandon, Laona, and the Wabeno area school districts are eligible for this program because they are deemed high-poverty school …
The rule of law is not a distraction
Gov. Gavin Newsom did it again. He is so busy running for president, so attuned to his general election campaign in 2028, that he has lost his way. It was bad enough that his podcast debuted with two MAGA-maniacs, Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, with whom he was trying to …
How not to fight a trade war
This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning. And the reason for the turbulence is obvious: the Trump administration’s continuing mixed signals over its trade war.
Preventing problems, not fanning flames
To the Editor: I have worked at the Oneida County Health Department as the Community Health Educator in the Reproductive Health/Women’s Clinic/Family Planning Program from 1982 until 2022. During this time I saw firsthand how the health department works with people and policies to protect the health of the entire …
Lakeland Times: Our View
For the first time in a long, long time, thanks to the American people simply having had enough after living through Covid tyranny and Bidenslumberonomics, an army of truth-tellers has ascended to some of the highest posts in Washington, aka The Swamp.
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