LETTERS/OPINIONS
An open letter advocating the prioritizing of education funding
To the Editor: This is an open letter to Senator Felzkowski and Representative Swearingen. Currently the State of Wisconsin has a budget surplus of approximately $4 billion. Yet, public school districts around the state are struggling to maintain financial stability and quality educational programs.
Reader urges support for bipartisan Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund
To the Editor: Ask your state legislators to support funding of Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. This fund, named after Governor Warren Knowles (R) and Senator Gaylord Nelson (D), has funded public land acquisition and recreation infrastructure around the state, including in Northern Wisconsin for decades.
Pocketbook pain, politics and high-flyer hypocrisy
To the Editor: When the President, Trump, not Musk, said there might be some pain in the pocketbook, you do know he meant us, not him and his cohorts, don’t you? Talk about hypocritical, on one hand they are firing people like us trying to earn a living, on the …
Lakeland Times: Our View
As we report in today’s edition, an inadvertent mistake by the Presque Isle town government has voided its recent move to exceed the town’s levy limit, a move overwhelmingly approved by electors at the town’s annual meeting, and the penalty the state is imposing has placed in jeopardy not only …
Is this what America wants?
“But isn’t there really a lot of waste, abuse and fraud in all the government spending?” my Uber driver asked.
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Bloody hands, legacy of shame: Oct. 7 stains America’s left
What remained of the bodies of 32-year-old Shiri Bibas, her 4-year-old son Ariel and her 9-month-old baby boy Kfir were returned to Israel last week. Autopsies showed that they had been brutally murdered by Hamas and Islamic Jihad after they were kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, and dragged, terrified, into …
Tragic loss highlights danger of anti-vaccine agenda
To the Editor: As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a threat to every child who contracts a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination. My personal experience provides irrefutable evidence supporting my belief.
A web of disinformation
“You should have never started it,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, accusing Ukrainian leaders of having started the war with Russia. “You could have made a deal.” He followed up the next day on social media, branding Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s leader, as a “dictator without elections” who had “done …
Sometimes, moral clarity isn’t difficult
This week, the world was reminded of the deep and abiding evil that has wormed its way to the center of Palestinian nationalistic culture by the news that the Bibas family — a mother, Shiri; a 4-year-old boy, Ariel; and his 9-month-old brother, Kfir — who had been kidnapped back …
Reader defends Trump, critiques opposition
To the Editor: It looks like the hysterical left has come out of hibernation early to once again spew hate, other nonsense and to declare President Trump is Hitler. As a reminder, the Trump is Hitler argument was litigated on Nov. 5, 2024 when President Trump defeated the real threat …
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Lakeland Times: Our View
Back in 1983, the incomparable Woody Allen produced a movie, Zelig, about a man who so desperately wanted to be liked and to fit in that he took on the persona of those around him. It was not malicious. Zelig, who came to be known internationally as a human chameleon, …
Dear Secretary Kennedy, CURE LONG COVID
You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world when it comes to …
Resistance to memory
When I was young, I knew a lot about old people. Especially about old people I knew personally: members of my family, my mother’s contemporaneous older friends, teachers, clients on my paper route. It wasn’t a choice. When I was young, no one asked whether I was interested in events …
Balancing profit, people, planet
To the Editor: Climate change is of growing importance to Americans. A CBS News poll taken last October showed 45 percent of voters viewed it as “very important.”
The power of self-interest
Politicians bash businesses. “Stop the greed!” shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders. Many Republicans are equally ignorant.
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