By John Welter | Viroqua As a lifelong outdoors person, I deeply appreciate the opportunities Wisconsin offers to anglers, hunters, and other outdoors folks. Here in the spectacularly beautiful heart of the Driftless Area, those opportunities are influenced by...

By Kay Ziegahn | Richland Center In denigrating others just to get a laugh, Trump imagines he is superior to all who disagree with him. Therefore, he blithely continues mudslinging anyone he considers a rival. Who but a fool would say, much less believe, that Kamala...

By Kent Gallaway | Readstown I’m a conflicted independent voter, and it’s a shame that in 2024, when the choice for president should be clear, it isn’t!  We don’t have rank choice voting, and we are left with what the oligarchs have left, an undemocratic...

By Diane Young | rural Norwalk Don’t miss this one! Performances of the latest Brookwood High School theatre department presentation are scheduled for this weekend. Performances will be Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. Tickets priced at $5...

By Bob Breidenstein | rural Ontario The second hand on the old alarm clock is relentlessly ticking – ticking – ticking …  It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, so wrote Charles Dickens in “A Tale of Two Cities.” He was writing about London and...

By Danell Sulik | Kendall I am always astounded when I see polls that say people prefer Trump on the economy. It’s well documented he’s left a trail of failed businesses and fleeced investors in his wake. His fake “university” had to pay a $25 million fine for bilking...

By Joan Kent | La Farge I’d become numb to the constant spread of misinformation via social media. Until Springfield, Ohio. A Springfield woman’s email shared on Facebook, that the Haitian immigrants there were eating residents’ pets, went viral. She’s since...

By Kent Galloway | Readstown How come state Rep. Loren Oldenburg doesn’t respond or show up? For several years I’ve sent letters, voicemails and emails to him. Sometimes I’ve offered criticism, mentioned our free repair clinic, or compliments, with not one response!...

By Danell Sulik | Kendall Those with attention spans longer than a gnat’s will recall how Republicans blamed the first assassination attempt on the Democrats and urged everyone to tone it down while taking no responsibility for it themselves. Trump even seemed to have...

By Danell Sulik | Kendall The Harris/Trump debate was a definite departure from the Biden/Trump debate. The first debate featured two White guys older than dirt. Joe Biden looked frail, and frankly, less likely to survive another four years. By default, Trump won...