LETTERS/OPINIONS
Heartfelt thanks for Spencer benefit
To the Editor: I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported the Spencer Benefit held on May 4. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all who donated, attended, contributed raffle items, volunteered, or simply helped spread the word. Your generosity and support meant the …
The blame game
This was the week that was supposed to be celebrated for the accomplishments of President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office. It didn’t turn out that way. The president rained on his own parade. The two biggest crises facing the new administration — the rule of law and the economy …
50 years after the fall of Saigon, let’s accept defeat
My mom had an uncanny ability to size up current events and accurately predict their long-term effects. Fifty years ago, I sat in my mom’s colonial dining room and watched the fall of Saigon on her black-and-white TV with two folds of aluminum foil dangling from the rabbit ears. America …
Lakeland Times: Our View
There’s an old story about a man who kept beating his wife in front of his son, and then sharply admonished the child when the boy hit his sister. “But Pa, you beat ma all the time,” the child said. “Well,” the monster replied, “Don’t do as I do, do …
I'm just asking: is free speech still free?
To the Editor: I’m just asking: I’m just asking. When does free speech not become free speech anymore? This has been an extremely controversial subject.
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What does Russia want?
Russia’s war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a few kilometers of Kyiv, and Western powers offered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exit from the country.
Sheer lunacy
What do you do when you’ve screwed up so badly that any competent president would be demanding your resignation? Easy. Attack women.
Reader rejects ego over empathy
To the Editor: Your recent Our View piece made me wish all over again that you would always offer, in your paper, front and center, a counterpoint Our View piece, in service to facts and truth.
Reader finds irony in Times postal complaint
To the Editor: I find it ironic that The Lakeland Times, ardent acolyte to Trump and the GOP, is complaining of bad mail service when it was Trump, during his last year in office, who was instrumental in installing the post office board of governors that nominated Louis DeJoy as …
Reader criticizes Times for overlooking rally voices
To the Editor: I participated in the “No Kings Rally” held at Veteran’s Park in Minocqua on April 19. The temps were in the low 40s but over 200 concerned citizens showed up to peacefully express their concerns about the present threat to democracy and its impact on the citizenry.
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Navigating the wake of reality and regulation
To the Editor: Response to the opinion piece “Let’s regulate wake boats with facts, not misinformation” by William Banholzer, in the April 18 edition of The Lakeland Times. Thank you for contributing to this “hot topic.”
Detonating democracy: The threat of obsolete laws
Wars end. Bombs remain. In December 2020, the crew of an English fishing boat was pulling in a string of crab pots 22 miles northeast of Cromer, a town in Norfolk, England, when they noticed a tug on the main line. An explosion blew the Galwad-Y-Mor into the air, injuring …
The cabinet of clowns
There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired. The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say. He was stunningly unqualified for the job in …
Lakeland Times: Our View
When Donald Trump was re-elected last November, Democrats were suddenly in a sweat about potential political persecution and retribution aimed at them, and many of them worried aloud that they might be soon escorted from the comforts of their ideological thrones to the realities of an aluminum throne and a …
Nourish to flourish
To the Editor: All three Forest County school districts currently offer no-cost breakfast and lunch to all students. The program that provides this service is called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Crandon, Laona, and the Wabeno area school districts are eligible for this program because they are deemed high-poverty school …
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