LETTERS OPINIONS
Mayor offers year-end report to citizens of Rhinelander
To the residents of the City of Rhinelander: As 2023 comes to a close, I would like to recap some of the accomplishments we have achieved that directly affect our residents, business owners, and visitors to our great City:
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Nobody could have delivered Donald Trump a better Christmas and New Year’s gift than the Colorado Supreme Court, which has ruled 4-3 that the former president cannot appear on Colorado ballots in 2024.
Dear Gregg and Richard...
To the Editor: Only 12 days of Christmas and I find myself compelled to use one of them to retort to one of your recent editorial misadventures. Either I’m not sufficiently capable of properly managing my time or your insidious tracts are capable of simply overpowering me. I’ll have to …
Texas abortion case defies logic
Try as I may, I simply cannot comprehend the thinking of Texas Republican officials who forced a 31-year-old mother of two to flee the state to secure a legal abortion in order to spare the doomed fetus in her womb from terrible suffering, preserve her ability to bear a third …
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As Burl Ives once sang, Christmas, it’s the best time of the year, and Christmas Day is undoubtedly the world’s most anticipated day, for various reasons.
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Celebration for Ice Age Trail
To the Editor: Exciting news! The Ice Age and North Country Trails are now part of the National Park System! This means support from the NPS in advertising, promoting, printing brochures and maps, and eligibility for funding to enhance the trails.
Please join fight against addiction, Oneida County
To the Editor: To those who live, work and play in Oneida County, if you’re concerned about the effects of opioids, fentanyl, heroin, and meth flowing into Oneida County and Wisconsin, we encourage you to support the proposed adolescent recovery and wellness center Thursday, December 28, 4 p.m., at Woodruff …
In support of wake surfing legislation
To the Editor: Recently, bipartisan legislators introduced a bill to put some guardrails on wake surfing on Wisconsin lakes. As an enthusiast of all water sports, including wake surfing, fishing, and paddling, I believe the legislation represents a significant stride toward a more sustainable future for our waterways.
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The biggest misnomer in American society today is the use of “institutions of higher learning” to describe colleges and universities across the country, and this week gave us two mortifying examples of why that is, one of those here in Wisconsin and another of course in the halls of Congress.
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Oneida County is once again doing what it does best — hiding the inner workings of government from the people — proving the old adage that government simply can’t be trusted, ever.
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Why the abortion issue matters
“American Elections Are About Abortion Now,” reads the headline over a New York Times column. New York magazine puts it more bluntly: “Abortion Wins Elections.”
Rep Tiffany: GLITC Adolescent Recovery and Wellness Center should be built on tribal land
To the Editor: While I applaud the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC) for seeking to help those who have substance abuse problems, GLITC has numerous tribes in their association that have the public safety and medical infrastructure missing in the Town of Cassian.
Gas too cheap
To the Editor: Gas is too cheap. When I was a boy in the 1950s the price of gasoline was (CPI inflation adjusted) about the same as today. So why is gas too cheap, when the price is about the same?
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There’s always so much — and so many people — to give thanks for come the holiday season, and always there’s such a rush to thank everybody we can think of that we inevitably leave someone out.
A future canceled
MONTREAL — Forgive me, please, for repeating myself, as people of a certain age often do. I’ve written columns before on major anniversaries of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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