LETTERS/OPINIONS
Reader wants property owners to be included in Plum Lake ATV vote
To the Editor: Vote for Serenity in Plum Lake. There will be meetings on May 14 and 15 in Plum Lake, the first to discuss and the second to vote on the question(s) of allowing ATVs in Plum Lake. As currently stated, only electors will be allowed to vote.
Reader asserts only one choice will preserve democracy
To the Editor: To Mr. Lauer in Park Falls: In your response, published in The Lakeland Times on April 26, to Mr. Wolff’s letter regarding needed head examinations you refer to the current POTUS as an angry, demented old white man who belongs in a nursing home.
Not for the dogs
To the Editor: I parked at the Brandy Lake playground with my grandson yesterday.
Lakeland Times: Our View
The protests that have erupted on college campuses across the nation these past few weeks — culminating in police storming and evicting pro-Hamas students who had taken over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University — have evoked comparisons to the student anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the late 1960s and early 1970s, …
This is a golden age of censorship
It’s too bad we can’t monetize censorship, because we truly live in a golden age of speech suppression. In this deeply polarized society, the one thing we can all agree upon is that people we disagree with need to shut up.
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Face of the mob: If Columbia’s the gem of the ocean, we’re in trouble
After Columbia University’s president was filleted by a House Committee earlier this month and the spotlight was turned on the mobs taunting and intimidating Jewish students there, Columbia’s faculty served angry notice that they expected to be in charge, not the university administration.
True connections in divided times
To the Editor: I ran for Oneida County board supervisor and lost the election; however, I don’t consider it a loss. The conversations I have had with my neighbors filled me with the hope that it is possible to move past what divides us in this polarized political climate, and …
Trump faces 34 felonies at trial. But was there a crime?
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan.
Thanks for recyclers
To the Editor: The Mercer Lions just received word from Habitat for Humanity of Wausau that they were able to weigh the Christmas lights that we brought to them for recycling.
Trump follower responds to Woolf
To the Editor: Replying to Jay Woolf’s letter to the editor published in the April 16 edition of The Lakeland Times.
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Rethink Plum Lake ATV poll
To the Editor: Something Stinks in Plum Lake! So, in the middle of mud season, when even full-time residents have left town, the town board of Plum Lake held a town board meeting, did not allow public comment, and announced that on May 15 the town would hold an “Elector …
Reader offers two views of Line 5
To the Editor: What is the Western view of land as it relates to the Line 5 pipeline? For or against, discussion often sounds like a math equation; if Line 5 blank the result is $blank. There is little thought of what we owe the land.
Volunteer appreciation
To the Editor: April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and I want to attest to the incredible impact that caring volunteers make in the lives of others in our community.
Plum Lake ATV poll not so simple
To the Editor: The voters of the town of Plum Lake are being invited to participate in a non-binding poll on May 15. Their job is to answer three questions, all pertaining to their desires to have ATV and UTV on town, county and state roads within the township. If …
Trouble in River City: Elitism and arrogance threaten a backlash against Democrats
“Trouble in River City” goes the famous line in “The Music Man,” one of America’s best-loved musicals, set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, meant to represent the country’s heartland.
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