LETTERS OPINIONS
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.
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. …
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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 …
Trump v. The Supreme Court
President Donald Trump has a problem with the Supreme Court, which finally said no to him on tariffs. He doesn’t like an independent judiciary. He thinks Justices should do what the president who appointed them wants. He thinks the Founding Fathers were wrong. And the Constitution.
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Evil meat
Do you eat steak? You’re killing the planet! So say climate activists. Silly media agree: Vox warns that beef is the “worst thing we eat when it comes to global warming.”
Is affordability really a crisis?
At some point, the headlines turned “affordability” from a concern into a “crisis.” But what does affordability mean? For most of us, that depends on what we consider our minimum requirements for happiness. If you look at TikTok, life in New York City is a fairy tale of chic bars, …
River News: Our View
There is a simple yet durable rule in physics that systems tend to veer toward entropy unless external energy is applied. That is, in the universe, disorder is the default setting. Turns out, governments within social systems behave the same way, just substitute ‘accountability’ for ‘energy.’ Left to its own …
An open letter to Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Tom Tiffany
To the Editor: I’m writing to urge you to vote against the President’s SAVE Act, the bill to require states to make people provide strict proof of citizenship to register to vote, to show certain limited forms of ID when casting a ballot, and to require states to turn over …
The energy policy we could have had
Oil, oil, oil. The war with Iran has oil prices soaring. And no thanks, President Trump, for your other war, the one against green energy.
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