LETTERS/OPINIONS
Lakeland Times: Our View
This is Sunshine Week — a week to celebrate or bemoan the state of open government in America — and as usual we present our readers with our annual grades for local officials. As readers can see, there are a bunch of truly responsive government officials, and there are also …
The good, the bad, the undocumented
President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported.
Billionaire blunder?
To the Editor: Elon Musk intends to buy Wisconsin. Big money contributions bypass identification. Reporters think at least $1 million of Musk’s money supports Brad Schimel in our Supreme Court race. But Musk’s wonderkids are naïve. Funding an attack ad on Schimel’s opponent, they goofed, posting a Harvard professor’s photo …
Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave
It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators across the political spectrum. This week, the White House announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be deporting an apparently green card-holding Columbia University graduate …
Good for the Jews? No.
I probably don’t agree with anything Mahmoud Khalil has to say about Israel. He’s the Columbia University student activist who has been arrested and threatened with deportation in the name of fighting antisemitism. Trampling on free speech rights is no way to fight antisemitism. Neither is cutting off funding for …
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It’s a new session in Madison
Do you know what a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is? You should — they’re controlling your healthcare. This is why I recently introduced Cole’s Act, legislation to reform PBMs and ensure your doctor, not corporations, controls your drug decisions.
Reader criticizes Senator Baldwin and Democrats
To the Editor: An open letter to Senator Baldwin: In the past I have contacted your office to voice my displeasure regarding your response to Canadian Dictator Trudeau because of the Nazi/Gestapo tactics he used to quell the mostly peaceful trucker protest and to express my displeasure regarding your vote …
Two faces of Trump
To the Editor: In the months leading up to the November 2024 Presidential Election, we saw the two faces of Trump. One face was the “message” one in which he promised to whip inflation, lower prices, protect social security and health coverage, etc.
Tariff troubles
To the Editor: Our farmers are worried about the tariffs (taxes) that are going to be put on exported ag products by our trade partners, and with good reason, they have been there before.
Tax the past?
Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy. New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise the price of oil, gas and electricity by taxing the past.
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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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