LETTERS/OPINIONS
Reader endorses slate of four new supervisors for expanded Lac du Flambeau town board
To the Editor: I am hoping that Lac du Flambeau residents will join me in supporting four new candidates for our town board. Our town stands at a pivotal juncture as we expand our board from two to four supervisors. We must embrace new leadership that will tackle serious issues …
Ad-dress-ing alternative facts
To the Editor: In the past, I was bothered by the phrase “alternative facts.” It just didn’t make sense. After all, how could two things that may be diametrically opposed yet both be true?
The cost of ignorance is too high
To the Editor: Reading is a crucial element for an informed, well educated and broad minded citizenry. It is one of the cornerstones of a democracy. Banning books, burning books, taking libraries out of public schools, (the Houston Texas school district) is not only UnAmerican but Undemocratic! As Walter Cronkite …
A precise critique of Presque Isle press coverage
To the Editor: I get it. The Lakeland Times is in the business of selling newspapers, and writing sensational stories and keeping them on the front pages sells papers. What you have dubbed “Presque Isle’s Computer Caper” involves complicated events and either out of ignorance or by editorial selection, you …
Presque Isle ATV advocate sounds alarm on Eschenbauch’s silent agenda
To the Editor: Warning — Presque Isle voters! Al Eschenbauch seeks your vote as Presque Isle’s next town chairman. Al recently sent a letter to PI voters informing them he was a founding member in 1993 of the Last Wilderness Conservation Association, making note it was different from the Last …
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Chief Justice Roberts’ lament
“For more than two centuries,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote Tuesday in an extraordinary statement, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Reader supports Schimel
To the Editor: We have a disease in the country with activist judges trying to write new law rather than applying the existing law as written, intended, and validated from prior cases. Wisconsin is now being infected based on events after the State Supreme Court election and this activism could …
Reader supports Crawford
To the Editor: I want to encourage you to vote for Judge Susan Crawford to be elected to our Wisconsin Supreme Court. Susan Crawford grew up in Chippewa Falls, raised with values like hard work, common sense, responsibility and honesty.
Republican budget: Debt and denial
To the Editor: Suppose a friend of yours complained about how far in debt he was, “I’ll never get out of debt even if I live to be 1,000.” And then while having another beer he said “Did I tell you I’m going to part-time starting next week?”
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 …
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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 …
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.
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