LETTERS/OPINIONS
Parade over protest
To the Editor: Please do not give one line in next week’s paper to the planned idiocy gathering of people who have nothing else to do but make fools out of themselves with their ignorance and denial of what President Trump has accomplished in just a few months to make …
Lakeland Times: Our View
For many years now, there have been grumbling and murmurs about how worthless the North Central Regional Planning Commission is, not to mention how anti-local government the very concept of it is, and every once in a blue moon the murmurs bubble to the surface.
Israel: An idea that no longer makes sense
People who support Israel, no matter what it does, tend to hang their hats on a series of familiar arguments. Israel, they say, is the only place Jews can live in security. Critics of Israel want to eliminate Israel. The abolition of Israel would render Israeli Jews homeless (ethnic cleansing), …
No kings
What does it say when Alex Padilla, a sitting member of the United States Senate, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, is wrestled to the ground and handcuffed like a common criminal?
Medicaid cuts will cost everyone
To the Editor: You would almost have to be living under a rock to have missed the passage of the new budget bill — the “Big Beautiful Bill” — by the House of Representatives. This bill contains huge cuts to programs that help us stay healthy and live well, one …
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The protests in LA
I’m fine. Thanks for asking. Other than the endless and awful worries that come with caring for my daughter with long Covid, and the very real fear that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his boss will cut all the research programs that are the best and only hope for the …
The scavenger mentality
As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on — why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks at police …
Shallow lake, deep debate
To the Editor: This concerns the June 6 article “Property owners sue town over wake boat ordinance.” You are certainly correct that this is a significant property rights case. It has major implications for the 53 Wisconsin towns with wake surfing ordinances and the dozens more working toward it. Because …
Choose love
To the Editor: A friend lent me a book to read the other day, “At Home in Mitford,” by Jan Karon. The author introduces us to Reverend Tim, an Episcopalian priest who takes care of everyone in town except himself. He has such an amazing, warm, loving personality, and he …
Lakeland Times: Our View
In one of the most juvenile and embarrassing opinions to come down the pike by an Oneida County circuit judge — and that’s saying something — judge Mary Sowinski became the latest member of the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Justice to announce to the world that, in Wisconsin, it’s perfectly …
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Winners and losers
That’s what tax bills are all about — who pays more and who pays less, who gets the benefits and who ends up holding the bag. President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” should come as a surprise to no one. It’s a bonanza for the rich. The research is incontrovertible.
Lakeland Times: Our View
Well it’s Pride Month and Gov. Tony Evers hoisted the so-called progress flag high above the state capitol last week as the governor saluted LGBTQ “folks” all across the state. Nothing wrong with the salute per se, though raising the flag over the capitol is something else again. The problem …
Biden’s many ‘original sins’
“Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, pulls from 200 interviews in order to expose Democrats’ coverup of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline from his son Beau’s death in 2015 through his presidency and into his …
I’m a Harvard reject
Growing up in the Boston suburbs, in the shadows of Harvard, there was only one school I wanted to go to: Radcliffe, which in those days was the name of the undergraduate school for women at Harvard. I had a great uncle who taught at Harvard Medical School, which is …
Vacillation, uncertainty and danger signs
This week, President Donald Trump announced that he was considering a 50 percent tariff on goods from the European Union; just days later, he reversed himself, announcing that any such tariffs would be delayed until July 9. Traders rejoiced, with the S&P 500 spiking dramatically.
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