LETTERS/OPINIONS
Reader asserts ATV/UTVs not the answer for a season of little snow
To the Editor: The winter of 2023 — 2024 had no snowmobile season at all in our area of Vilas County. This resulted in a lot fewer people coming here.
Pro-Palestinian protests: A call for historical context, not antisemitism
To the Editor: The recent (and ongoing) protests over the Israel/Hamas conflict in Gaza have created headlines across America. The protesting has largely been portrayed as a part of a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, even antisemitic movement. This is unfortunate. Antisemitism, one of civilization’s oldest conspiracy theories, is dangerous and unacceptable. What …
Campus riots and a Chicago convention: Deja vu all over again?
As the philosopher and baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it’s deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to …
Deja vu all over again: A fractured America triggers memories of 1968
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has given us another gift, entitled “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."
The Gaza protests are a mirror image of MAGA
Within the past 48 hours, student protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and then were forcibly removed by New York police. I knew that building well when I was an undergrad there in the 1970s.
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Reader questions presidential immunity
To the Editor: If the Founding Fathers thought the President should have absolute immunity, why would they include impeachment in the Constitution?
Reader is grateful for local first responders
To the Editor: This message is to exhibit my sincere gratitude towards our local law enforcement and emergency personnel. At a recent cardiac event, I was fortunate to contact 911 and get the assistance needed by our local patrol in a quick manner.
Carbon footprints and growing your own food
To the Editor: I believe that understanding ones’ carbon foot print is helpful in knowing how to live each day. We can all see our foot print when we travel by car and put gas into the tank.
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.
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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.
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 …
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