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Looking past ceremony: Military Appreciation Month and the case for strengthened veteran health in northern Wisconsin
Communities across Northern Wisconsin are closely tied to military service — with countless residents and families shaped by generations of enlistment, deployment, and return. That connection takes center stage each May during the commemoration of the National Military Appreciation Month — an annual tribute that intends not only to highlight …
Libertarians condemn petition circulator ban
To the Editor: The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin strongly opposes the recent federal court decision allowing Wisconsin’s out-of-state petition circulator ban to remain in place. Measures like this do not strengthen democracy, they weaken voter choice and make it harder for grassroots candidates, independent candidates, and third parties to compete …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Well, just as we presumed, the Oneida County board was partying like there was no tomorrow this past week, voting this week to approve the DNR’s purchase of yet more land using tax dollars in Oneida County.
Math doesn’t add up for reader on elk and wolves
To the Editor: A May 15 press release in The Lakeland Times caught my attention with its headline: “DNR reminds hunters to apply for 2026 elk hunting license by May 31.”
The Steyer smear
Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher. Roger Pielke Jr.’s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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What do you do?
When the war is not going well? You assassinate more leaders. They replace those leaders with equally bad/worse leaders? You threaten to destroy the civilization! That does not go over well. Back down on that one. Declare Victory. Threaten to Blockade. Tell People We’re Winning.
China: Our enemy, not our rival
China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America’s geopolitical enemy — and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark: What we didn’t hear about during the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara
The oral arguments conducted before the United States Supreme Court on April 1, 2026, relative to the case of Trump v. Barabara, which addresses President Trump’s Executive Order relating to “birthright citizenship,” included many references to the Supreme Court’s 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Barney Frank speaks
Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is sinking like a rock. That should hurt them, but only so much.
The thing that works
Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, “Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system.”
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Lakeland Times: Our View
There are moments when local governments reveal whether they actually believe the policies and principles they themselves adopted, or whether those principles are merely performative words for public consumption, to be tucked away and forgotten the moment political pressure arrives.
The separation of powers
What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who believes in extensive Executive Power, must follow the decisions of the courts, …
Medicaid millionaires are hiding in plain sight
Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend — something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses.
Walleye Foundation warns of declining fisheries, pushes lake‑specific hatcheries
Anyone who spends time on the lakes of the Northwoods knows something is not right. Natural fishery recruitment is slipping. Fish size structures are thinning. And year after year, we are told to be patient while the same tools produce the same disappointing results.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark: What we didn’t hear about during the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara
Sometime this summer, the United States Supreme Court is expected to release its decision in Trump v. Barbara, wherein the court will decide whether President Trump’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order relative to “birthright citizenship” is consistent with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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