LETTERS/OPINIONS
Lakeland Times: Our View
What’s really alarming in this country is just how many people simply don’t understand what speech is protected by the First Amendment, and what is not, or who enjoys constitutional rights and who does not.
Protecting Medicaid funding for our communities
To the Editor: Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of Americans, including children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. It provides essential healthcare services, ensuring that the most vulnerable members of our society receive the care they need.
The Democrats looked silly
There they were, dressed in hot pink, waving signs, banging on a cane. If that is what counts as resistance, we are all in trouble. The fact is that by showing up, the Democrats gave the president an audience he doesn’t deserve. Would they all have shown up at a …
Lakeland Times: Our View
President Donald Trump took to the podium for his presidential address Tuesday night and, in typical Trumpian style, he touted his administration’s whirlwind accomplishments over the past six weeks, castigating Democrats (Joe Biden in particular) along the way and even praising the beauty of the word ‘tariff.’
Defense of DEI
To the Editor: It’s interesting to see you tying yourself up like a pretzel over DEI [editorial, 14 Feb.], trying to value diversity, equity, and inclusion, while condemning DEI, a program that attempts to make those values real. Yet you claim that it was perverse to eliminate one small portion …
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Countdown to chaos: courthouse security
To the Editor: How long will it be before someone is murdered in the Oneida County Courthouse? The courthouse has multiple unsecured entrances, and anyone can walk in with a gun or knife. Hopefully no one will ever be killed there, but hoping isn’t a rational strategy.
Restoring objectivity
A critically important and consequential election is quickly approaching. In less than one month, Wisconsin will decide the future of its justice system. I have raised my family here and built my life right here in Wisconsin, and I am fighting tooth and nail to ensure that we do not …
What happened today?
The president and JD turned a meeting that was supposed to make nice in the White House into a segment for Fox News as they openly shouted at Ukraine’s leader for not being thankful enough for America’s aid and Donald Trump’s leadership.
Reader offers Bible lesson on mercy
To the Editor: “If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful toward the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. Benjamin Cremer).
The top task for team Trump
President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed 73 executive orders; he unleashed his Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to identify waste, fraud and abuse across executive branch agencies; he …
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Who will speak for you?
Good for Janet Mills, the governor of Maine. On Friday, at the White House, she did something that too many politicians have been afraid to do. She stood up to President Donald Trump and stood for the rule of law.
An open letter advocating the prioritizing of education funding
To the Editor: This is an open letter to Senator Felzkowski and Representative Swearingen. Currently the State of Wisconsin has a budget surplus of approximately $4 billion. Yet, public school districts around the state are struggling to maintain financial stability and quality educational programs.
Reader urges support for bipartisan Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund
To the Editor: Ask your state legislators to support funding of Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. This fund, named after Governor Warren Knowles (R) and Senator Gaylord Nelson (D), has funded public land acquisition and recreation infrastructure around the state, including in Northern Wisconsin for decades.
Pocketbook pain, politics and high-flyer hypocrisy
To the Editor: When the President, Trump, not Musk, said there might be some pain in the pocketbook, you do know he meant us, not him and his cohorts, don’t you? Talk about hypocritical, on one hand they are firing people like us trying to earn a living, on the …
Lakeland Times: Our View
As we report in today’s edition, an inadvertent mistake by the Presque Isle town government has voided its recent move to exceed the town’s levy limit, a move overwhelmingly approved by electors at the town’s annual meeting, and the penalty the state is imposing has placed in jeopardy not only …
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