Editor’s note: The following statement has been submitted for publication by Fort Atkinson City Manager Rebecca Houseman. Accessibility of polling place for all is required by statutes but going above and beyond those requirements is a passion of the city’s election officials to ensure accessible, free, fair, and transparent elections....
Category: Opinion
Tuesday’s Election Day right-of-way, parking problems for persons with disabilities
Letter to the editor: Many of Fort Atkinson’s nearly 3,000 voters who cast ballots for Tuesday’s election did so in person despite severe weather conditions. Citizens with disabilities who voted in person on Tuesday faced challenges with our public right-of-way adjacent to the Municipal Building, because of a lack of...
Speak truth on January 6
Letter to the editor: "(W)hat I saw was just a — a war scene. ... There were officers on the ground. ... They were bleeding. They were throwing up. ... I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. ... It was carnage. It...
Letter: Dear U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, support bipartisan legislation to reduce spread of bird flu
Editor’s note: The following letter has been sent to U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, who serves Wisconsin’s Fifth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes all of Jefferson County, including a portion of Whitewater within Jefferson County, all of Washington County, most of Waukesha County, and portions...
Constituent supports write-in candidate Donohue for Jefferson County board
Letter to the editor: I am writing this letter in support of John Donohue as a write-in candidate for Jefferson County Supervisor District 26. I have worked with John over the past year as he started the “Citizens for a Greater Fort Atkinson” group. This group is a nonpartisan group...