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River News: Our View
First things first, let’s give credit where credit is due. Our Northwoods representatives, Rep. Rob Swearingen (R-Rhinelander) and Rep. Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk), were right to vote against the rushed reauthorization of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program last week, as we report in today’s edition.
An open letter to Congressman Tiffany
To the Editor: The United States has a terrible health care system. Compared to other developed countries, we don’t live as long, infant and maternal mortality rates are higher ... the list goes on. For these abysmal results, we pay twice as much per citizen as any other country.
The threat of an overproduced elite
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
Trump the socialist
“America will never be a socialist country!” says President Donald Trump. I hope not. Trump rightly declared socialism “the wrecker of nations and destroyer of societies.” But I fear he’s confused about what socialism is.
Dems won victory in defeat
In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operation “a miracle of deliverance.” Historians portray it as a perfect example of victory in defeat.
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Stripping away local control: A reader challenges Oneida County’s mining maneuvers
To the Editor: Back in 2009 a company called Tamerlane approached Oneida County about acquiring rights to the Lynne Deposit, a known zinc/silver/lead deposit that was discovered in 1990 by Noranda under a glacial aquifer just upstream of the Willow Flowage on county forest lands.
Hatchet job haven: The Justice Department gets torched
“Everything she writes,” Mary McCarthy famously said about playwright Lillian Hellman, “is a lie — including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” Historians wrestling with how Americans permitted their democracy to be so badly debased during the President Donald Trump era will have to first assess why so many millions of us consumed …
We’d better start thinking about future jobs
The big headlines about job losses tend to focus on the big employers. Layoffs at UPS, 48,000 — at Intel, 24,000. Amazon is cutting up to 30,000 workers, and Target, 1,800. These pink slips are being dropped largely on white-collar positions.
Taken hostage: Democratic pols kiss the Democratic Socialists’ ring
With a new NBC poll showing that only 28 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably, Republicans hardly need to be handed any more gifts this holiday season. But hang on.
Toxic femininity
“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” — Henry Higgins. Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. …
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An open letter to congressman Tiffany
To the Editor: Tom, this is no time for the House of Representatives to be on vacation! There is so much you could be doing besides preparing to run for higher office.
Demolition zone: Trump’s wrecking ball is more than a metaphor
Donald Trump’s sudden demolition of the White House’s East Wing may have been ugly, but it sure is a metaphor. It’s hard to pinpoint the most stomach-turning aspect of the razing, though Americans, who disapprove of it by 53 percent to 23 percent according to a new YouGov America poll, …
Who’s afraid of big bad Bari?
There’s something bonkers in the hard left’s hysteria over Bari Weiss becoming editor-in-chief of CBS News. A psych eval comes toward the end. John Oliver recently delivered an unhinged tirade against Weiss as a right-wing tool of MAGA. Oliver was his usual self — frantic hands, googly eyes and a …
Clean CR, dirty consequences
To the Editor: For the people of northern Wisconsin, especially those relying on critical access hospitals in Tomahawk, Park Falls, Eagle River, and Antigo, the ongoing political brinkmanship in Washington is not a remote issue — it is a matter of life and death.
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