LETTERS/OPINIONS

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.

Living hell?

“Climate change will make earth a living hell!” claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don’t believe him. The media say, “All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!”

Trump’s war against the Ivy League is all smokescreen

Let’s cut to the chase. Most of Donald Trump’s threats against Ivy League colleges are an attempt to divert attention away from an economy heading into crisis.

Climate myths

I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”
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Thanks for a successful tax season

To the Editor: I would like to thank all the volunteers, sites, and site personnel that helped make this tax season a success. We completed 1144 tax returns, up from 1062 last year. We saved our clients $171,600 in tax prep fees and got them $1,035,358 back in refunds.

Vengeance is the word

As a candidate for president, Donald Trump constantly complained about the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, arguing that its prosecution of him was politically motivated. But as president, Trump has weaponized the entire federal government, to investigate and punish those he considers the “enemy from within” — whether it is …

Democrats’ bizarrely misplaced empathy

This week, Democrats decided to expend their quickly diminishing political capital in defense of a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to El Salvador some weeks ago; the Department of Justice initially admitted that his deportation was an “administrative error.”

Administrative error or executive overreach

To the Editor: I am writing about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was unlawfully sent by the Executive Branch of the U.S. government to a Salvadoran prison.

Autism awareness or alarmism?

To the Editor: I write with alarm and disagreement in reference to the three autism-referencing pieces in the April 11 issue of The Lakeland Times: the editorial, “Finally, an administration that cares about autism”, and the two related news pieces, the front-page headline “NIH to launch study to find causes …
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Malice towards none? A work in progress

To the Editor: Abraham Lincoln has two quotes I would like to center on: In his first inaugural address he talked about acting in ways that reflected “The better angels of our nature.” In his second inaugural he wanted citizens to act with “Malice toward none and charity to all.”

Obama speaks out. Where is George W. Bush?

President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump.

What is resistance?

France’s shocking surrender to Nazi Germany in June 1940 left citizens stunned and unsure how to resist the German occupation and Vichy’s collaborationist regime. Distrust was everywhere — few knew whom to confide in without risking betrayal.

Lakeland Times: Our View

We don’t like to keep readers in suspense, so we’ll get right to answering the question in the headline. Shortly, anyway. It’s a perfectly legitimate question given the slaughter that took place on April 1, when progressive (dare we say “far left”) candidate and soon-to-be justice Susan Crawford steamrolled a …

An open letter to Senator Johnson

To the Editor: President Trump promised to quickly end the war in Ukraine. I was skeptical: history tells us the only quick end to a war is surrender.
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