LETTERS/OPINIONS
Duluth volunteer offers cautionary tale
To the Editor: This is in response to your article “Rural shelters respond as homelessness rises” in your Oct. 17 edition. The homeless issue has been around for decades and many of us used to support helping our less fortunate. As the article states, I’m sure there are some 80-plus-year-old …
Lakeland Times: Our View
In a poem of ageless significance, the poet Robert Frost once pondered, upon arriving at a road that diverged in a yellow wood, which path to take.
Data center secrecy is unacceptable
All too often, secrecy and confidentiality carry the day in proceedings of state and local government. In one recent case, the name “Microsoft” on a state Public Service Commission filing was redacted — blocked from public view — along with pages and pages of other information. The redactions served no …
Tying loan forgiveness to ideology
Leave it to the Trump administration to come up with yet another way to enforce — and I mean enforce — its political ideology on students. It’s bad enough — well, worse than bad enough — that they are trying to police our classrooms; their next move is to redefine …
Democrats want open borders; most Americans don’t
Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do it.”
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Judge Sara Ellis
What does a parent do with a child who stubbornly refuses to follow the rules every day? You could do worse than set up a daily meeting, say, about 6 p.m. “to hear about how the day went.”
Generation Z(ohran)
How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing — a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver platter — turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City?
Price of a life
“But people will die!” That’s what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn’t cover illegal immigrants.
Chutzpah!
What do you say about a guy who is demanding that his current legal team pay his old legal team — one and the same — for getting him out on the biggest technicality of all time? And he offers to give your and my money to his favorite charity …
Lakeland Times: Our View
As we report today, when the Madison-based Cap Times published a report accusing the state Department of Public Instruction of burying 200 cases involving alleged educator misconduct, the featured anecdote kicking off the story was about — of all people — current Lakeland Union High School board president and former …
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Moral matrix reloaded
To the Editor: If you happen to define your self as a conservative as I do, you may be puzzled and appalled by the whole notion of “No Kings Day”. From my perspective the activities of the last administration were clearly authoritarian.
Checks and imbalances: Why one reader is not writing one
To the Editor: I am sharing a letter I sent to Mr. Charles E. Schumer, Senate Democratic Leader, in response to his request for donations to the Democratic party.
Clean CR, dirty consequences
To the Editor: For the people of northern Wisconsin, especially those relying on critical access hospitals in Tomahawk, Park Falls, Eagle River, and Antigo, the ongoing political brinkmanship in Washington is not a remote issue — it is a matter of life and death.
Abortion, assisted suicide, and the erosion of empathy
To the Editor: In many respects the world has turned upside down in my lifetime. In my youth, we were taught to serve others, to be humble; to help the elderly on our block, to attend church; to obey our parents; and follow our conscience based on teachings from parents-school-church …
Appreciate your local heroes
To the Editor: To the residents of Minocqua and surrounding area, do you realize how fortunate you are to have the quality of law enforcement and healthcare serving your communities? If you have never thought about it, let me give you an example of why you should be proud of …
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