LETTERS/OPINIONS
Minocqua Dells?
To the Editor: In the past couple of months The Lakeland Times has published a number of unrelated articles and letters to the editor which, while unrelated, do have a common thread. A thread that I think many of us may have missed, overlooked or have simply elected not to …
Soybeans, sanctions and subsidies
What are they thinking? Why would we bail out Argentina to the tune of millions of dollars to start with? Worse, after we did that, they sold their soybeans to China. Why is that bad? Because our farmers are facing bankruptcy. Since the tariffs were put in place our biggest …
Lakeland Times: Our View
On Tuesday, on what would have been the late Charlie Kirk’s 32nd birthday, President Donald J. Trump awarded Kirk the highest civilian honor the nation has to bestow, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Life is always about choices: It’s always instructive to see what choices our leaders make, especially when …
Protecting our children online can unite America
While we’ve increasingly seen political division in our nation and state, there is one thing everyone seems to agree on – unchecked online access is putting our children in danger.
It had to end
Too much suffering on both sides. Too much division. Too much danger for Israel to be as isolated and stigmatized as it has become. Too big a rift between American Jews and the homeland we love. Do President Donald Trump and his team deserve credit for taking a major step?
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How to win a war
It has been a long time since a Western country has won a war. It can now be said that Israel has won its war on Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, with the assistance of the United States — and, in particular, President Donald Trump.
Paying ‘victims’ to sue
There is a special place in hell for phony victims who take money from settlements meant for the legitimate victims of sexual abuse. Ahead of them, however, come the lawyers who make such scams work and pocket as much as half the settlements themselves.
Your Right to Know: Costs shouldn’t be used to deter records requests
In a 2007 ruling known as Zellner v. Cedarburg School District, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared that because public school teachers “are entrusted with the responsibility of teaching children,” the public has a clear right to know about allegations of misconduct against educators.
Trump’s latest invitation to universities
It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to federal funding.
Lakeland Times: Our View
This past week, the state Assembly passed a package of bills — in hugely bipartisan fashion — to make housing more affordable in Wisconsin. That the bills were hugely bipartisan — Republican sponsored and Democrat supported — tells us they probably won’t do a thing to help affordable housing, but …
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Clubs and advertisers get kudos for early event alerts
To the Editor: A thank you to those that advertise events early. I realize from articles published in the paper that the delay in receiving The Lakeland Times is not specifically your issue, but a government issue. Grrrr.
Bridging the great divide
To the Editor: I just had an incident in my life that reminded me of “The Great Political Divide” (GPD), the huge chasm we are experiencing between our political parties. I won’t go into the details of the incident, just to say that it brought home to me the massive …
Judging Charlie Kirk
To the Editor: In the aftermath of the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, your newspaper published an editorial that attempted to explain our First Amendment rights as well as decry “leftist mobs,” their “sinister,” “progressive cancel culture “and question the impartiality of a judge who posted that Kirk was “a …
Shutdown
As I write this, the government is hours away from shutting down. Countless federal employees whose jobs are to serve the public will be furloughed. Services will be disrupted. To take one example, the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to furlough nearly 90 percent of its workforce. Is the air …
Open for business or closed to change
To the Editor: Our rural town stands at a crossroad. While many of us work hard to preserve the traditions and values that make this community special, some of our senior business owners are taking actions that put our future in jeopardy. Instead of welcoming new ideas and fresh energy, …
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