LETTERS/OPINIONS
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 …
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.
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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 …
Republican rhetoric
At a campaign rally this week in Nebraska, President Donald Trump made what can most generously be described as a tasteless joke. In his flailing effort to justify a war that most Americans oppose, and that Trump himself has been unable to explain, he exaggerated the threat Iran poses, at …
‘Decide for yourselves’
To the Editor: Over the summer there have been numerous mentions in various media outlets of “the arch” or the “monumental arch” as the project is officially called in the proposal to the National Parks Planning Commission. The final review of this project is scheduled for the November meeting of …
Citizens should have more input on AI development
To the Editor: When AI company leaders say they are building dangerous technology that is escaping human control, we need to listen carefully. They say AI agents have duplicated themselves, evaded detection and hacked into other computer systems, with capacity to wreak havoc with cybersecurity, utilities, food safety, financial systems, …
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Only the informed can save voting rights for the future
To the Editor: I had the privilege of observing a polling place a few years ago and went away confident that my vote and thousands of others would be safely counted. I witnessed a group of citizens, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, who spent a long busy day checking …
Trillionaires
How much money should any one person have? When Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, people got mad. “He will own everything!” claims a popular YouTuber. “He will own your house ... your country ... your government.”
Predicting breast cancer
Imagine there were a simple test, using AI, that could accurately predict a man’s chance of developing prostate cancer in the next five years. Would insurance pay the $249 for the test?
Lakeland Times: Our View
Not too many years ago, there was a TV show called the Equalizer — actually, there were two iterations of it — where a person known as the Equalizer took up the cause of desperate people, and sometimes of not-so-desperate people, who had nowhere else to turn.
Toward the final stretch — and beyond
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don’t seem to be delivering as promised, seem on the verge of a massive rejection of his party.
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