Opinion
Off The Editor’s Desk – 3-6-2019
What has come to my attention this week! Bill Bennett, former Secretary of Education under President Reagan and who held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H. W. Bush told Fox News Monday that smoking marijuana lowers your IQ. He noted that teens smoking marijuana for a week could lower…
Read MoreLTE – Chuck Boyer – 3-6-2019
The Co-op Principle of Democracy Shrouded at Dunn Energy Cooperative Addressing the role of the co-op’s board of directors in the October issue of the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, Dunn Energy Cooperative general manager, James Hathaway, wrote: “Cooperative principle No. 2 talks about democratic member control. It says that men and women serving as elected…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-27-2019
They hate you if you disagree with them I listened to a clip last week of California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ tirade against President Trump. She said, “If you are a supporter of President Trump you are un-American.” How many times over the past few years is it that members of the left wing of…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-20-2019
A good campaign slogan! “Change” How many times has a presidential candidate, or for the matter, a candidate for governor, campaigned using the slogan with the word “change” in it? Obama’s “Change, we can believe in” and the change we got, but was it something that we really wanted? As the years pass in my…
Read MoreLTE – United States Postal Service – 2-20-2019
Dear Editor, Now that Polar Vortex Jayden has moved on and we are headed for a brief warm up, we need our customers’ help. Postal carriers have suffered serious injuries related to slips, trips and falls due to icy and snow covered walkways and porch steps. Preventing a slip or bad fall can be as…
Read MoreLTE – Tom Aebly – 2-13-2019
Dear Editor, SURPRISE!! Money does not grow on trees, money does not magically appear when you want it, and, if you expect the government to pay for everything, where is the government going to get the money? I listened to the State of the State address, given by Tony Evers. He (paraphrased) is going to…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-13-2019
If you like it, you won’t get to keep it! Remember a few years ago Congress passed a law that mandated that car companies manufacture cars that got great gas mileage. Now would you say that, that was not a good thing? But what happened? Those nice big cars became just a cracker box that…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-6-2019
Have we lost our faith? I ask that question because on Sunday mornings our churches have only a small number of worshipers attending and most of them are senior citizens. What has happened to the faithful people that left only standing room in our local churches for Sunday service? I have been aware of the political push in our…
Read MoreLTE – Tom Aebly – 1-30-2019
Dear Editor, I have observed that, generally, unions support the Democratic party therefore I would assume that unions and democrats should be proud of President Trump. It appears that he has adopted some of their techniques. When union members want more pay or an increase in benefits and the company or school board do not…
Read MoreLTE – Terry Nichols – 1-30-2019
Dunn County, start cutting services A recent article in the Dunn Co. News pertaining to a possible Dunn Co. referendum hopefully will be a dead issue. It’s bad enough that passed school district referenda totaled 1.4 billion, with a “B” last November election across the state. School districts are lining up for more referenda again…
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