LETTERS/OPINIONS
Is this what America wants?
“But isn’t there really a lot of waste, abuse and fraud in all the government spending?” my Uber driver asked.
Bloody hands, legacy of shame: Oct. 7 stains America’s left
What remained of the bodies of 32-year-old Shiri Bibas, her 4-year-old son Ariel and her 9-month-old baby boy Kfir were returned to Israel last week. Autopsies showed that they had been brutally murdered by Hamas and Islamic Jihad after they were kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, and dragged, terrified, into …
Tragic loss highlights danger of anti-vaccine agenda
To the Editor: As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a threat to every child who contracts a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination. My personal experience provides irrefutable evidence supporting my belief.
A web of disinformation
“You should have never started it,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, accusing Ukrainian leaders of having started the war with Russia. “You could have made a deal.” He followed up the next day on social media, branding Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s leader, as a “dictator without elections” who had “done …
Sometimes, moral clarity isn’t difficult
This week, the world was reminded of the deep and abiding evil that has wormed its way to the center of Palestinian nationalistic culture by the news that the Bibas family — a mother, Shiri; a 4-year-old boy, Ariel; and his 9-month-old brother, Kfir — who had been kidnapped back …
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Reader defends Trump, critiques opposition
To the Editor: It looks like the hysterical left has come out of hibernation early to once again spew hate, other nonsense and to declare President Trump is Hitler. As a reminder, the Trump is Hitler argument was litigated on Nov. 5, 2024 when President Trump defeated the real threat …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Back in 1983, the incomparable Woody Allen produced a movie, Zelig, about a man who so desperately wanted to be liked and to fit in that he took on the persona of those around him. It was not malicious. Zelig, who came to be known internationally as a human chameleon, …
Dear Secretary Kennedy, CURE LONG COVID
You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world when it comes to …
Resistance to memory
When I was young, I knew a lot about old people. Especially about old people I knew personally: members of my family, my mother’s contemporaneous older friends, teachers, clients on my paper route. It wasn’t a choice. When I was young, no one asked whether I was interested in events …
Balancing profit, people, planet
To the Editor: Climate change is of growing importance to Americans. A CBS News poll taken last October showed 45 percent of voters viewed it as “very important.”
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The power of self-interest
Politicians bash businesses. “Stop the greed!” shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders. Many Republicans are equally ignorant.
Are we headed for a constitutional crisis?
Maybe. That’s the best constitutional scholars can say right now. But I’m putting my money on the federal courts.
Dismantling democracy, a troubling comparison
To the Editor: Do the following political manifesto statements sound familiar to you?
Local Indigenous voice heard at State Capitol: No one is illegal on stolen land
To the Editor: On Wednesday, Feb. 5, people gathered at 50 state capitals for 50 protests in 1 voice against Project 2025 and the Trump Administration. I am a Winnebago (HoChunk) tribal member and Waaswaaganing Lac du Flambeau tribal descendant, and I was in attendance to represent my tribes, Indigenous …
Gratitude for civil ATV debate
To the Editor: Thanks to those who led me in the ATV battles, those who fought alongside me, and those who quietly supported those of us on the front line. I also want to thank those who opposed us passionately, while trying to be civil. There are many, I only …
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