LETTERS/OPINIONS
Congress must act to help the new postmaster general pull USPS back from the brink
The United States Postal Service is on the brink of a self-induced collapse. The failed policies of the Delivering for America Plan have driven away customers through a combination of sky-high rate increases and degraded service. David Steiner, who will take over as Postmaster General on July 14, has a …
We support Ukraine. Shouldn’t we be supporting Iran?
In “1984,” one of George Orwell’s characters explains that “doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” There’s a less elegant, yet equally absurd, way to describe the behavior of a politician who expresses two contradictory beliefs at once. People …
Congregate meals unite community
To the Editor: Seniors, heads up! Earlier this year I was anticipating having major surgery and was seeking some way to get meals. I didn’t think we were eligible for Meals on Wheels since my husband was able to drive. One of my friends showed me a monthly menu for …
Israel’s stunning victory over Iran — and 2 big lies debunked
This week, Israel finally unleashed its firepower against Iran’s nuclear program in a devastating feat of intelligence work, technological competence and war planning. The Israelis not only caught the Iranian regime flatfooted, but they devastated Iran’s war-making capacity, degrading Iran’s missile launchers by half, its nuclear program by up to …
The little pink house
Is your home your castle? Not when eminent domain law lets politicians confiscate your property if they claim it’s for “public use.” Politicians say they need the power to take property to build public projects like roads and railroad tracks.
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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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