LETTERS/OPINIONS
Can’t we all just get along?
To the Editor: In the Oct. 9 issue of The Lakeland Times, I read with great interest the comment concerning the problem wolves killed in Fifield from Alex Bohman of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Alex said wolves strengthen deer populations through predation of sick, weak, …
What’s ahead if the polls are right — or wrong
With less than two weeks until the midterm elections, things look bad for President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Generic polls show significant movement away from Republicans and toward Democrats since Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris by 50% to 48% two years ago.
Blame the court
It’s not often that you hear the justices of the Supreme Court take on each other in their free time. That was left for biting dissents, of which there have been plenty lately. But that’s changing, and it needs to. One of those writing her share of biting dissents is …
‘Vote Smart!’
To the Editor: I have been fact-checking the candidates’ advertising. When someone pays for an ad, they can say whatever they want. They don’t have to put their name on it and if you look at the facts most of these ADS just do not ADD UP! Consider a quick …
Guilty of wasting our time
I shouldn’t get so angry. It isn’t healthy. Last week, New York state summoned me to jury duty. I went, of course. It’s the law, and my duty. A jury may protect the innocent from government abuse. Ordinary citizens, not officials, decide if you are guilty.
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What a losing campaign looks like
If you want a one-word answer to how the president is approaching this election, I’ll give you my favorite. Kentucky. That’s it. He has exactly one public event scheduled on Saturday — a rally in Kentucky. Kentucky, a state that President Donald Trump carried by 30 points two years ago.
Has Trump broken his McDonald’s promise?
The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s.
Having it all
It was Katie Zacharia’s first day as White House Press Secretary and it may be the only time I’ll defend her. Not for just reading a prepared eight-minute homage to her perfect King, or only taking three questions (from Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail), but from the question …
Financial pressures are mounting for rural schools
To the Editor: Our schools are the heart and soul of every rural Wisconsin town. Sadly, most face serious financial struggles, and many residents don’t know why these struggles go on and on.
‘I remain skeptical’
To the Editor: Flydubai 1073 conjures a spectrum of 9/11 thoughts and terrors for many of us. In the first week of September 2001, I flew a three-day trip sequence on the 737-800 aircraft. In those days I was a flight instructor (Check Airman) conducting initial operating experience for crews …
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Not a ‘spectator sport’
To the Editor: My father was in the U.S. Navy in WWII, awarded the Purple Heart and other medals, and survived the attack on Pearl Harbor along with over a dozen Pacific battles. With his shipmates, his duties included diving down to the sunken ships to bring up the dead …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Every once in a while, Congress slips up and does something useful, and late last month that rare beast slithered out of the swamp in a way that could really be beneficial to the Northwoods.
Not fine at all
Imagine getting a bill from your local government for $900,000 because they see a greenhouse on your property and just assume you’re growing marijuana without a permit. Imagine government demanding $400,000 because you didn’t know to fill out a single-page form.
Love stays
The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to help run the Democratic Platform Committee for Geraldine Ferraro. She was …
How populist politics succeeds and fails
Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is poised to lose one or both houses of Congress in the United States? The troubles Trump’s Republicans face are not a mystery. It was …
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