LETTERS/OPINIONS
Change the culture, save the officer
To the Editor: As we enter 2026, I want to speak directly to police officers, supervisors, and leaders, not from a position of theory, but from lived experience.
Lakeland Times: Our View
Suddenly, as if old Wile E. Coyote was speeding across the plains hot on the trail of a road-running Dr. Snake Oil, the medical establishment is sprinting wildly away from its previous position on “gender-affirming care” for minors, otherwise known as the gender mutilation of children.
Will falling birth rates mean a more conservative world?
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an …
This one speaks for itself, etc.
Why would the President of the United States post a video of former President Barack Obama and the former First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys?
Warning signs for Republicans in 2026
Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats — a staggering 31-point …
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Don Lemon’s arrest
For once, something President Donald Trump and I can agree on. The arrest was “the best thing that could have happened” to Don Lemon, the president told reporters, after calling the former CNN anchor “washed up” and a “failed host.” In fact, Mr. Lemon hosts a daily two-hour YouTube news …
Let the groundhogs hibernate
To the Editor: Groundhogs are wild animals and true hibernators, yet every year they are pulled out of captivity — not their natural dens — for a tradition that has nothing to do with their well‑being. The practice began with German immigrants in the 1800s, who used hedgehogs or badgers …
ICE is coming, ready or not
To the Editor: Like it or not, it’s just a matter of time before US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comes to Wisconsin, if they’re not already here. After witnessing the chaos that ensued in Minnesota, we have nothing to look forward to here except more of the same, unless …
The ATV safety argument comes full circle
To the Editor: Who now has safety concerns? The Jan. 27 issue of The Lakeland Times included an article discussing an Arbor Vitae town board letter of support for an ATV/UTV trail to run through the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest. The proposed trail would connect Arbor Vitae and …
What the polls show
It was the Fox News poll of voters that a reporter asked the president about, the one that showed 59 percent saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone too far. Hard to dismiss as fake news, but the president wasn’t biting. He ignored the question, just sat resolutely …
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Girls vs. boys
Am I sexist? I think there are differences between men and women — traits beyond obvious physical ones. But when I was young, feminist leaders said there were no differences. The only reason men ran most things was sexism. There was plenty of that. One example people forget: Until 1974, …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Most people in Oneida County don’t know it yet, but the county will soon make its biggest personnel decision in decades, a decision that will, in no small measure, impact our ability to make a decent living, to run a small business, to use our land reasonably, and to pay …
Democrats’ response to Minneapolis chaos could be to their detriment
The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democratic officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside the Trump administration. Together, these forces have produced exactly …
Bovino’s exit
Getting rid of Gregory Bovino, who had been the face (intentionally so) of President Donald Trump’s war on immigrants, is a first step, but it is hardly enough. “You know, Bovino is very good, but he’s a pretty out-there kind of a guy,” Trump said in a Fox News interview …
Reader is nauseated over media’s ‘predictable’ mantra of chaos caused by ICE
To the Editor: Perhaps it is understandable, understandable that a political party with the means and opportunity, would use its power and authority to insure survival. Knowing that newly arrived immigrants, legal or not, would favor the entity offering this open invitation, “Biden world” ignored immigration law. Democrats willfully removed …
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