Opinion
LTE – Rodney Berg – 2-17-2021
What is happening in California? Surly it can’t be the ever popular governor Newsome, nephew of the powerful Nancy Pelosi, he is so popular he was given a 3.5 million dollar mansion tax free. Maybe it’s the skyhigh taxes that Californians are enduring with no tangible results or the constant lockdowns with no small businesses…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 2-17-2021
Many of the municipalities in Dunn County have purchased new Dominion Image-Case Voting (ICE) machines. Using an ICE machine, each voter fills out a paper ballot which is scanned into the tabulator part of the voting machine. The poll workers do not count the paper ballots because the ICE tabulator counts the votes. Memory cards…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-17-2021
Did anything good come out of the Super Bowl game? I watched only part of the Super Bowl and tuned in at first and I did not hear the singing of the National Anthem. I did hear the singing of “America the Beautiful” and I have to say H.E.R. the person who sang it was…
Read MoreLTE – Rodney Berg – 2-10-2021
I was watching New York Governor Cuomo on TV his personality was astounding, although he never said why he didn’t use the medical ship that president Trump brought halfway around the world for his use. Instead he issued a order to commit covid 19 patients into nursing homes killing thousands of elderly residents saving taxpayers…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 2-10-2021
Letter to the Editor. Every day I spend at least a couple hours reading/listening to news articles. I used this information to form my opinion that the ICE Dominion machines (and other brands too) are potentially vulnerable to hacking. I have read the news articles from the following experts: 1. Karen McKim (former auditor for…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-10-2021
Maybe it will not be so bad! Maybe I worry too much and maybe the country will survive four years of Joe Biden in the White House. But, the first thing that we have to notice is that the price of gasoline is climbing toward the two and a half bucks a gallon. We had…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-3-2021
Perception is everything! If you have something that is working fine, but if you think it may not be working fine, then you are not comfortable with that item. If you perceive an item has a flaw, whether it does or not, it has a flaw. During the battle over the election results, I was…
Read MoreLTE – Dick Champeau – 1-27-2021
In regard to the Family Photo Album’s 1915 picture of the brush wolf killed with a mop handle, the editorial indicated it was judged to be too large for it to be a coyote. To be perfectly honest, and to eliminate any misunderstanding, a coyote is called by many names: brush wolf, prairie wolf, small…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 1-27-2021
Recently I found out that our local municipalities are in the process of buying new DOMINION VOTING machines. I talked to our local clerk at the December Town of Tiffany meeting. She mentioned that the clerks from all of the townships in Dunn County were soon to have a Zoom conference call to discuss what…
Read MoreOff The Publisher’s Desk – 1-27-2021
Let’s Give it a Try! Last Wednesday was Inauguration Day for Joe Biden and I listened to part of his speech and that of the two leaders in the United States Senate, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) from the senate floor. Now if even a small part of what they hope will…
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