LETTERS OPINIONS
‘War and climate change’
To the Editor: As of this writing there are multiple wars in the world. Along with human tragedy and physical destruction we also experience the degradation of our natural environment. Cities, industries, and infrastructure are destroyed. There is an extraordinary amount of economic wastefulness.
‘Tax the rich?’
To the Editor: In your April 14 edition, John Stossel contributing under the headline “Tax the Rich?” on his interview with Steve Forbes refers to a one-time California wealth tax (on the excess over $1 billion of wealth as of Jan. 1, 2026 of each of the State’s approximately 200 …
Reader displeased with newspaper’s Sunshine grades for Trump, Tiffany
To the Editor: It seemed it had to be an April Fool’s joke, but no. The River News actually gave Donald Trump and Tom Tiffany A plus for their performance in office. Let’s just address President Trump’s performance.
The triumph of economic freedom?
Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise “solutions.” President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Elizabeth Warren wants politicians to decide what prices are “excessive.” So I was surprised to see economist Donald J. Boudreaux’s new book titled “The Triumph …
Subsidies keep America on top
That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a “grotesque misallocation of federal spending.” It was a form of “rent-seeking,” whereby companies seek “to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace.”
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Reader defends Evers veto
To the Editor: In your April 7 edition, Richard Moore reports on U.S. Representative and possible next Governor of Wisconsin Tom Tiffany’s criticism of Gov. Evers’ veto of measures “that would have eliminated taxes on certain overtime earnings and on cash tips” because those measures, according to Rep. Tiffany, would …
Big tech’s ugly data centers finally meet the opposition
It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don’t want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from their front porches. What’s wrong with them? Are they snotty not-in-my-backyard liberals?
Tax the rich?
“Tax the rich!” shout progressives. Why not? America’s richest people are ridiculously rich.
Denis Dean Koshak
Denis Dean Koshak went to be with his Savior at Aspirus Wausau Hospital on April 7, 2026 at the age of 72 years. He was born November 21, 1953 to Ray and Lois (Cook) Koshak. He was baptized on January 17, 1953 and was a member of Zion all of …
Did you really think Trump would lower prices?
Donald Trump’s assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over high prices.
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Restless dynamo: Rahm Emanuel ponders the plunge
“If they ever make a sequel to ‘Dumb and Dumber’,” Rahm Emanuel mused to a packed hall at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire last week, “there’s a lot of competition in this administration for who gets to play the lead.” If there’s one thing Emanuel isn’t, it’s dumb. …
The art of taxing fairly is messy
“The rich should pay their fair share of taxes.” Who can argue with that? But then we must decide who is rich and what is meant by fair. Neither political party has distinguished itself in making such distinctions.
A missed deadline shouldn’t deny justice to Oneida County firefighters
On Sept. 5, justice was denied to thousands of firefighters in the United States when the filing window for Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) multidistrict litigation closed. Less than 13,000 cases were filed, comprising a sliver of the U.S. firefighter population. Almost 99 percent of those exposed never knew that the …
The art of taxing fairly is messy
“The rich should pay their fair share of taxes.” Who can argue with that? But then we must decide who is rich and what is meant by fair. Neither political party has distinguished itself in making such distinctions.
A missed deadline shouldn’t deny justice to Oneida County firefighters
On Sept. 5, justice was denied to thousands of firefighters in the United States when the filing window for Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) multidistrict litigation closed. Less than 13,000 cases were filed, comprising a sliver of the U.S. firefighter population. Almost 99 percent of those exposed never knew that the …
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