LETTERS/OPINIONS
Clubs and advertisers get kudos for early event alerts
To the Editor: A thank you to those that advertise events early. I realize from articles published in the paper that the delay in receiving The Lakeland Times is not specifically your issue, but a government issue. Grrrr.
Bridging the great divide
To the Editor: I just had an incident in my life that reminded me of “The Great Political Divide” (GPD), the huge chasm we are experiencing between our political parties. I won’t go into the details of the incident, just to say that it brought home to me the massive …
Judging Charlie Kirk
To the Editor: In the aftermath of the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, your newspaper published an editorial that attempted to explain our First Amendment rights as well as decry “leftist mobs,” their “sinister,” “progressive cancel culture “and question the impartiality of a judge who posted that Kirk was “a …
Shutdown
As I write this, the government is hours away from shutting down. Countless federal employees whose jobs are to serve the public will be furloughed. Services will be disrupted. To take one example, the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to furlough nearly 90 percent of its workforce. Is the air …
Open for business or closed to change
To the Editor: Our rural town stands at a crossroad. While many of us work hard to preserve the traditions and values that make this community special, some of our senior business owners are taking actions that put our future in jeopardy. Instead of welcoming new ideas and fresh energy, …
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Lakeland Times: Our View
Jimmy Kimmel is a man with a dark, dark face and an even darker heart. Figuratively so, in the sense that his performances are the blackest of black, wrapped in malevolent tones and violent content and intent. Remember his Covid-era “joke” suggesting that hospitals shouldn’t treat those who took ivermectin:
The history of presidential grift
Everyone knows that Donald Trump is the grifter in chief. Earlier this month, the president and his family raked in approximately $5 billion from meme coins, stablecoins and tokens. His businesses skimmed about $2.5 billion in profits from politically connected real estate deals during his first term.
Off-road, off-agenda
To the Editor: On Tuesday, Sept. 23 I attended the Boulder Junction town board meeting. I was asked to attend by the Boulder Junction ATV/UTV Club and was part of a larger group of people who are supporters of the ATV/UTV sport.
Going it alone
“The way this country works, you’ve got to sit down with people you may not agree with and come to an agreement, come to a negotiation,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said on Tuesday after President Donald Trump canceled his meeting with Democratic leaders. “Donald Trump is not a …
Sticks, stones and the first to cast
To the Editor: It seems we hear the same things over and over, “tone down the rhetoric” or “words, both spoken and written have consequences,” but somehow nothing changes. There was a period after 9/11 when people were very kind and considerate of each other, but that was then and …
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Lakeland Times: Our View
For those of you who belong to the Boomer generation, or maybe just a little younger, you probably remember Robert Palmer and his great song, “Simply Irresistible.” One line from the chorus goes: “She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went.”
How I learned to stop worrying and love the zipper merge
Let me pose a situation we’re all too familiar with: You’re driving down a highway and you come across a single lane of traffic that stretches, seemingly, into infinity. The other lane is open, but temporary signs indicate that lane will end soon and merge with the backed up lane.
Jimmy Kimmel enabled censorship
First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ... a lameass? No. In this Niemoller scenario, the deplatforming of the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comes at the end of the slippery slope, not the beginning. ABC canned Bill Maher 23 years ago for …
Out the door in two — thanks to four
To the Editor: It is hard to believe that four towns could get together and accomplish what they did for the benefit of their respective residents. But they did and I am very thankful. Our new EMS is excellent, out the door in less than 2 minutes and on scene …
The ‘good government’ crowd
I used to be a real do-gooder. National Board of Common Cause under Archie Cox and Fred Wertheimer; chair of the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission; professor of election law. I did these things after working in the trenches because I really believed in the possibility of cleaning up the system. …
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