LETTERS/OPINIONS
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.”
Administrative error or executive overreach
To the Editor: I am writing about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was unlawfully sent by the Executive Branch of the U.S. government to a Salvadoran prison.
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Autism awareness or alarmism?
To the Editor: I write with alarm and disagreement in reference to the three autism-referencing pieces in the April 11 issue of The Lakeland Times: the editorial, “Finally, an administration that cares about autism”, and the two related news pieces, the front-page headline “NIH to launch study to find causes …
Malice towards none? A work in progress
To the Editor: Abraham Lincoln has two quotes I would like to center on: In his first inaugural address he talked about acting in ways that reflected “The better angels of our nature.” In his second inaugural he wanted citizens to act with “Malice toward none and charity to all.”
Obama speaks out. Where is George W. Bush?
President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump.
What is resistance?
France’s shocking surrender to Nazi Germany in June 1940 left citizens stunned and unsure how to resist the German occupation and Vichy’s collaborationist regime. Distrust was everywhere — few knew whom to confide in without risking betrayal.
Lakeland Times: Our View
We don’t like to keep readers in suspense, so we’ll get right to answering the question in the headline. Shortly, anyway. It’s a perfectly legitimate question given the slaughter that took place on April 1, when progressive (dare we say “far left”) candidate and soon-to-be justice Susan Crawford steamrolled a …
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An open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: President Trump promised to quickly end the war in Ukraine. I was skeptical: history tells us the only quick end to a war is surrender.
When the going gets tough
What do you do when the economy is going to hell, 401(k)s are going down the toilet and we’re bracing for higher prices on nearly everything? If you’re an average American, you worry.
Trump’s reality-driven U-turn
President Donald Trump did what he had to do. Last week, Trump dropped an economic neutron bomb by declaring tariffs on virtually every country on the planet — tariffs based not on reciprocal tariff rates, but on trade deficits.
Keep our local local
To the Editor: I do know that the economy is challenging. Would you be kind enough to explain why our “local” news is being fed half-way with Madison news? The Northwoods is not Madison. Please keep our local local.
Reader rejects Trump-Hitler comparison
To the Editor: I just read a letter to the editor which stated Donald Trump was behaving like Hitler in his desire to annex Canada and Greenland into the United States.
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