LETTERS OPINIONS
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.
The agents of chaos
Sen. Bernie Sanders argued recently that the ongoing conflict in Gaza “may be Biden’s Vietnam.”
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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 …
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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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Wow, talk about the proof in the pudding. National Public Radio just gave a hands-on first-class demonstration of why government subsidies to the media are bad, no, horrific.
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The rest of the story on the HSC
To the Editor: With the upcoming change in how Vilas, Forest and Oneida counties will provide mental and behavioral health services and the subsequent end of The Human Service Center, it is important to note that not all facets of the situation have been reported on by local news outlets.
Lessons learned
To the Editor: I ran for Oneida County Board Supervisor and lost the election; however, I don’t consider it a loss.
Property taxpayers please read
To the Editor: We would like to remind property taxpayers to talk with their assessor or attend their town/city Open Book meeting to review the assessment roll if they question the assessed value of their property. Some municipalities have Open Book meetings starting in April. If you are not satisfied …
River News: Our View
If you were planning for interest rates to come down this year — as everybody on the mountaintops proclaimed would happen — better put away your plans for that new house or car and start calculating ways to continue to pay that sky-high credit card debt because the Fed signaled …
A question about coordination
To the Editor: Your April 16th piece protesting the Pelican River Forest Easement raises questions. This letter will raise more.
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