LETTERS/OPINIONS
AARP: WI needs strong laws to stop crypto criminals from stealing in our local businesses
Criminals have found a new way to steal millions of dollars from older Wisconsinites. Before lawmakers adjourn this current legislative session, they have an opportunity — and we believe an obligation — to stop them.
Tatiana and Trump
On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced the death of the late President’s 35-year-old granddaughter. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
Doomed?
While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire,” says Cornell West.
Lakeland Times: Our View
There is something wonderfully peculiar about New Year’s Day. It arrives every year with great ceremony and very little instruction. There’s no Christmas tree to put up — though we might take one down — or any great big list of gifts to buy. After Thanksgiving’s reflections and Christmas’s family …
JD Vance gets America’s creed and heritage right
With America’s 250th birthday as an independent nation coming up in 2026, the big debate on the right this season about what it means to be an American couldn’t be more timely. Vice President JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy — the 2024 presidential aspirant who hopes to be elected Ohio …
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You don’t have to be Jewish
One of my most distinct memories of childhood is sitting in the back seat of my mother’s car with my sister on Christmas Eve as my mother explained that there would be no Christmas at our house because we were Jewish. It’s not your holiday, she told us. And it’s …
Criticism of the criticism: A call for reflection and forgiveness
To the Editor: I’m writing about the paper’s three attacks on the Oneida County highway commissioner concerning inadequate Thanksgiving snowplowing. You report that two of the possible causes may have been two broken trucks, and six trucks that hadn’t been delivered. It’s unclear why you blame the commissioner for those …
Socialism vs. capitalism
People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, “College students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union “wasn’t real socialism.”
Transgender teens
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3 percent of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported a range from 1.2 percent to 2.7 percent.
We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America’s 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It’s gotten to the …
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Lakeland Times: Our View
The Christmas season arrives every year with its stubborn insistence, quite like the sudden ringing of a bell on a quiet street, stopping us in our tracks to take a look around. It reminds us, with its cold weather and warm beverages, its white snow and bright lights, its soft …
Reader laments ‘Christ-less’ Christmas concert
To the Editor: Isn’t the birth of Jesus the reason we celebrate Christmas? My heart was crying as I left the “Winter Concert 2025,” to see my great-granddaughter in pre K. Yes, the kids were all excited and happy and they did an awesome job. But not one song included, …
Rob Reiner and Donald Trump
At first, when I saw it on Facebook, I thought someone had fallen for some AI slop, was reposting “fake news.” Even President Donald Trump could not be that tasteless. He could be. He is. This is the full post: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob …
The dumbest assumption in all of politics
One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies — pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or …
‘Beyond incompetence’ near Glidden
To the Editor: While reading the Dec. 5 Lakeland Times Our View about the Thanksgiving, plowing “fiasco,” I couldn’t help but have flashbacks when I lived and worked for two townships near Glidden.
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