LETTERS OPINIONS
Get out your handkerchiefs for Kennedy Center crybabies
Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don’t belong on our turf.
Democrats should stop rescuing Republicans
Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don’t want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA’s cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don’t recognize that bad timing loses battles.
River News: Our View
This is Sunshine Week — a week to celebrate or bemoan the state of open government in America — and as usual we present our readers with our annual grades for local officials. As readers can see, there are a bunch of truly responsive government officials, and there are also …
‘Enough already!’
To the Editor: Vote no on the school referendum in April let them live with what they have, like the rest of us. We can’t hit the streets and beg for money like they do, every time they want money. Notice I said want, not need.
Mahmoud Khalil has rights, damn it
Mahmoud Khalil could have been cooked up in a lab to offend — no, worse — to disgust me. And yet, despite temptation, I cannot endorse what the Trump administration is doing to him.
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Our beautiful economy was a terrible thing to waste
Boy, do I miss Joe Biden. I especially miss the former president when Donald Trump and his bobbleheads unfairly blame him for everything that’s gone wrong since Inauguration Day. Trump has since proven beyond doubt that he can wreck the economy all by his lonesome. And that’s not all he’s …
Protecting Medicaid funding for our communities
To the Editor: Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of Americans, including children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. It provides essential healthcare services, ensuring that the most vulnerable members of our society receive the care they need.
It’s a new session in Madison
Do you know what a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is? You should — they’re controlling your healthcare. This is why I recently introduced Cole’s Act, legislation to reform PBMs and ensure your doctor, not corporations, controls your drug decisions.
Restoring objectivity
A critically important and consequential election is quickly approaching. In less than one month, Wisconsin will decide the future of its justice system. I have raised my family here and built my life right here in Wisconsin, and I am fighting tooth and nail to ensure that we do not …
Countdown to chaos: courthouse security
To the Editor: How long will it be before someone is murdered in the Oneida County Courthouse? The courthouse has multiple unsecured entrances, and anyone can walk in with a gun or knife. Hopefully no one will ever be killed there, but hoping isn’t a rational strategy.
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Pigsty: The world watches the White House turned to trash
“My heart has always been truly convinced,” Marquis de Lafayette declared 250 years ago, “that in serving the cause of America I am fighting for the interests of France.” The French nobleman put his life where his mouth was, volunteering for George Washington’s Continental Army as his country provided critical …
The Democrats in disarray
This week, I had the opportunity to attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress as a guest of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The energy in the room was palpable ... at least on the Republican side.
River News: Our View
President Donald Trump took to the podium for his presidential address Tuesday night and, in typical Trumpian style, he touted his administration’s whirlwind accomplishments over the past six weeks, castigating Democrats (Joe Biden in particular) along the way and even praising the beauty of the word ‘tariff.’
He needed me, but I let him down
The “he” in this case was Rusty, an ornery old mutt who didn’t do the cute doggy things that get clicks on social media videos. He wouldn’t “sit.” He’d rarely lick my face. And if a baby was gurgling nearby, he’d go the other way.
Defense of DEI
To the Editor: It’s interesting to see you tying yourself up like a pretzel over DEI [editorial, 18 Feb.], trying to value diversity, equity, and inclusion, while condemning DEI, a program that attempts to make those values real. Yet you claim that it was perverse to eliminate one small portion …
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