LETTERS/OPINIONS
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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The rule of law is not a distraction
Gov. Gavin Newsom did it again. He is so busy running for president, so attuned to his general election campaign in 2028, that he has lost his way. It was bad enough that his podcast debuted with two MAGA-maniacs, Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, with whom he was trying to …
How not to fight a trade war
This week, the stock market yo-yoed wildly, taking investors on a roller coaster of stunning lows and sudden highs. Rarely has investment been so gut-churning. And the reason for the turbulence is obvious: the Trump administration’s continuing mixed signals over its trade war.
Preventing problems, not fanning flames
To the Editor: I have worked at the Oneida County Health Department as the Community Health Educator in the Reproductive Health/Women’s Clinic/Family Planning Program from 1982 until 2022. During this time I saw firsthand how the health department works with people and policies to protect the health of the entire …
Lakeland Times: Our View
For the first time in a long, long time, thanks to the American people simply having had enough after living through Covid tyranny and Bidenslumberonomics, an army of truth-tellers has ascended to some of the highest posts in Washington, aka The Swamp.
Living hell?
“Climate change will make earth a living hell!” claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don’t believe him. The media say, “All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!”
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Trump’s war against the Ivy League is all smokescreen
Let’s cut to the chase. Most of Donald Trump’s threats against Ivy League colleges are an attempt to divert attention away from an economy heading into crisis.
Climate myths
I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”
Thanks for a successful tax season
To the Editor: I would like to thank all the volunteers, sites, and site personnel that helped make this tax season a success. We completed 1144 tax returns, up from 1062 last year. We saved our clients $171,600 in tax prep fees and got them $1,035,358 back in refunds.
Vengeance is the word
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump constantly complained about the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, arguing that its prosecution of him was politically motivated. But as president, Trump has weaponized the entire federal government, to investigate and punish those he considers the “enemy from within” — whether it is …
Democrats’ bizarrely misplaced empathy
This week, Democrats decided to expend their quickly diminishing political capital in defense of a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was deported to El Salvador some weeks ago; the Department of Justice initially admitted that his deportation was an “administrative error.”
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