LETTERS OPINIONS
River News: Our View
It is not an exaggeration to say that the American justice system is corrupt, and has been for a long, long time.
Inventing and spreading conspiracy theories
To the Editor: I used to think that newspapers exist to gather facts and distribute them [hopefully in an impartial manner] to inform the people of the community. Now we see [River News, 31 May] that inventing and spreading conspiracy theories is first-page work.
Butkus responds to Moore
To the Editor: Regarding Mr. Moore’s article, it is a fair treatment of my mistake. And I can hardly blame those who forwarded the emails to Mr. Moore.
River News: Our View
President Donald Trump. A lot of people like saying that, and a lot of people don’t, but, after last week’s Libertarian Party convention, it’s more likely than it was before that The Donald will reclaim the title.
Come one, come all, ye Posers and Hypocrites
Hear ye! Hear ye! Tonight at the town hall, come watch the posers and the hypocrites try to bamboozle us all!
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Ask Congress for a moratorium on postal rate increases
Dear Reader: The United State Postal Service recently announced another 10% increase in their rates effective July 14, 2024.
River News: Our View
The universe is a mysterious place, and so is Earth, as is whatever planet the nation’s progressives call home in their heads.
News fatigue is a real thing
The conviction of the Democrats: The tawdry details of Donald Trump’s private life that are emerging from his New York trial involving $130,000 in hush money to the porn star Stormy Daniels finally will sink the former president’s reelection campaign. The chaos in the House of Representatives will turn the …
Washington looks for its escape pod
According to New York Times veteran political reporter Peter Baker, the No. 1 topic of discussion at Washington dinner parties and receptions these days is “Where would you go if it really happens?” “It” being Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House following the November 2024 election.
Your Right to Know
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will soon hear a case involving records related to the voting rights of mentally incompetent people. No matter which side wins, the public has in some ways already lost.
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The agents of chaos
Sen. Bernie Sanders argued recently that the ongoing conflict in Gaza “may be Biden’s Vietnam.”
River News: Our View
This past week, one of the nation’s leading repositories of whackism, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, otherwise known as a bastion of academic elitism, announced it was flushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion down the toilet.
Dissent is just as American as the flag
We are old now, those of us who came of age amidst the turbulence of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
The ‘Biden bump’ that didn’t last long
“The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden,” the influential Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg declared on March 26. “The Biden bump is real.” For Republicans, Rosenberg is someone worth listening to; he was right about the nonexistent “red wave” that many in the GOP expected back in 2022. When …
River News: Our View
The protests that have erupted on college campuses across the nation these past few weeks — culminating in police storming and evicting pro-Hamas students who had taken over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University — have evoked comparisons to the student anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the late 1960s and early 1970s, …
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