LETTERS OPINIONS
Treating crime victims with dignity and respect
To the Editor: Ensuring victims of crime are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve is a priority at the Oneida County District Attorney’s office. We know the criminal justice process can be confusing and even traumatic for crime victims.
River News: Our View
This Tuesday, Wisconsin voters have a chance to help re-calibrate government toward a true separation of powers, in which the three branches of government hold unique divisions of authority, and they can do so by voting ‘yes’ on the two constitutional questions they will see on their ballots.
Protecting ‘God’s Country’
To the Editor: People call this place where we live “God’s Country”. The lush green forests, clear deep waters of Lake Superior, and the perfectly blue sky in the summer are exceptionally beautiful.
Your Right to Know: Guides help public navigate openness laws
You ask for a record from your local government, you get it. You want to attend a meeting of a public body, you can walk right in.
River News: Our View
As we report in today’s edition, this week the Biden-Harris administration’s rewrite of Title IX took effect in most of the country’s schools, endangering the rights of women across the country.
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Lynne’s mining saga
To the Editor: Back in 2009 a group of county board supervisors spent three years trying to lease public lands in the town of Lynne for a mine in a vast wetland area upstream of the Willow Flowage. The public was opposed to the proposal, and most importantly, so were …
Reader is troubled by “globalist left-wing” influence at LUHS
To the Editor: The letter to the editor in the July 19 edition of The Lakeland Times written by Hannah “Bonnie” Dana is troubling.
River News: Our View
As we have often said, elections have consequences, and nowhere is that so more than in Wisconsin, where Democrats have been running wild with a radical left-wing policy agenda that Wisconsinites will pay dearly for in years to come.
Reader asserts lawmakers’ inaction on Lincoln Hills a missed opportunity for positive change
To the Editor: Your July 12 headline “Lawmakers warned Lincoln Hills was tragedy ‘waiting to happen,’” should have read “Lawmakers warned Lincoln Hills was tragedy ‘waiting to happen,’ and then waited for it to happen.”
Pro ProcellaCOR reader asserts herbicide has role in combating EWM
To the Editor: What is the impact of untreated EWM? EWM chokes out sunlight, native plants, spawning beds and bird and animal habitat, resulting in a “dead” lifeless environment. Wildlife begins to disappear, fish spawning beds are buried in milfoil, pan fish and sport fish all but disappear and fish …
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The crazy train of political obstructionism
Wisconsin Farmers Union is taking a clear stand on two upcoming constitutional questions appearing on the August 13 ballot. Both are designed to limit the power of the governor to distribute federal funding. If they pass, the balance of power within our state government will be upset and our state …
Debunking Line 5 myths
To the Editor: Misinformation that Line 5 operator Enbridge is pushing to retain massive profits ($1.6 million/day) while endangering the Great Lakes is getting to me.
Who’s running Oneida County?
To the Editor: Back in 2009 a group of county board supervisors spent three years trying to lease public lands in the Town of Lynne for a mine in a vast wetland area upstream of the Willow Flowage. The public was opposed to the proposal, and most importantly, so were …
Bruce Lloyd Fish
Bruce Lloyd Fish, age 72, of Rhinelander, died on July 17, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on December 31, 1951, in Rhinelander, the son of Lloyd and Bonnie (Lavender) Fish.
River News: Our View
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in an open motorcade in Sarajevo, a murder that by all accounts sparked World War I.
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