Opinion
Off The Publisher’s Desk – 4-24-2019
I question giving 16-year-olds the right to vote I have to question the leaders in the Democratic Party that want to lower the voting age to sixteen. I tried to remember what I was thinking about when I was sixteen. I think it was V-8 engines and smoking tires. I remember that we were influenced…
Read MoreLTE – Gaylord Johnson – 4-17-2019
To whom it may concern! Citation #BH8089CGHC I am paying the above citation under protest. I was giving blood at the Glenwood City High School and did not notice the designated parking space. I am 93 and have trouble walking. It was open and I was grateful, I parked. I did not notice the ticket…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 4-17-2019
Democrats want illegals to vote! How times have changed. Long before Donald Trump was a candidate for president, the Democrat leaders were all for border security. President Clinton pushed for stronger measures along the southern border. He even sought to punish companies that hired illegal laborers over American citizens. According to the Bearded Patriot; “All…
Read MoreLTE – John Schmidt – 4-10-2019
Dear Editor: This is in response to the article you had in the paper a couple of weeks ago about everything being made of plastic. It has really become a way too popular thing. Everywhere and everything, plastic, plastic, plastic, and yet nothing is being done about all the (crap) garbage being thrown into our…
Read MoreOff The Publisher’s Desk – 4-10-2019
We need new laws to control immigration! We need to address our federal laws regarding immigration. If you spend any time watching TV news you will see that Democratic members of Congress spend more time trying to “GET TRUMP” than they do addressing the work that needs to be done, not only on immigration, but…
Read MoreLTE – Alice Ford – 4-3-2049
Dear Carlton and the paper clan, I just enjoyed the old news on March 20, 2019. This is a piece about W. Daye, the jeweler opening a store in Glenwood. 86 years ago on my birthday Bill Daye told me I could have whatever I wanted. Just pick it out. As I am looking my…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 4-3-2019
The long awaited Mueller Report Finally after some 22 months the Mueller report is in the hands of the Attorney General, who sent a four-page summary to Congress. The report apparently clears the Trump campaign of any wrong doing in the Russia investigation. But Congress is hammering that they have not been granted access to…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 3-27-2019
How old is too old to be president? Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post, “The joke among people my age is that every dinner party starts with an organ recital: Who’s lost a gall bladder, got a new kidney or maybe just replaced a knee? What’s the pain of the day, and who sleeps…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 3-20-2019
Last week I was enjoying lunch at Bonnie’s Café in downtown Glenwood City and found a National Geographic Magazine (June 2018 issue) there and I picked it up and paged through it and found an article with the heading, “We Made Plastic, We Depend on it, Now We are Drowning in it.” I would like…
Read MoreLTE – Daniel and Yvette Flaten – 3-20-2019
Dear Editor, We would like to commend the village of Colfax for the great job of snow removal this winter. With record quantities of snowfall and many days of frigid temperatures, it would have been easy to give up and simply hibernate until spring. Now spring is here, with the threat of lots of rain. …
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