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...
Letter to the editor: A gift for grift
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...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s rhetoric is like that of dictators
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...
Letter to the editor: Why doesn’t Rep. Oldenburg show up?
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!...
Letter to the editor: Never wrong, never sorry
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...
Letter to the editor: Obviously unfit
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...
Letter to the editor: Are Republicans the party of the poor?
By Don Foy | La Farge I saw a lady on TV say the Democrats are the party of the rich, and the Republicans are the party of the poor. She’s wearing upside-down glasses! The Republicans are more than ever the party of and for the rich. One gauge of this is that...
Letter to the editor: A special THANK YOU
By Lucas Bender | President, Community Club of Kendall “Turn out the lights, the party’s over,” or so they say. As president of the Community Club of Kendall, I want to THANK all of our SPONSORS, VOLUNTEERS, DONORS, COMMITTEE MEMBERS, and of course, YOU, the...
Letter to the editor: Money on border wall could have been better spent
By Rose Eddy | Onalaska “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, … Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This quote is from a poem, assigned to our Statue of Liberty, meant to be a...
Letter to the editor: Broken glass
By Danell Sulik | Kendall There’s always been the glass ceiling, an invisible and often impenetrable barrier, devised by men to control and hold women back. Told they were too physically or mentally weak, there were many things women simply weren’t allowed to do....
