Category: Opinion

Letter to the editor: “As greenhouse gas emissions increase, sea levels are rising, average global temperatures are increasing, and severe weather patterns are accelerating.  These changes, coupled with other global dynamics…will devastate homes, land and infrastructure.”  —  2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, U.S. Department of Defense  The Department of Defense has expressed...

Letter to the editor: I am strongly supporting Joan Fitzgerald for State Assembly in District 46. This new district includes Fort Atkinson, Lake Mills, Cambridge, Cottage Grove, Marshall, and Waterloo. During her two terms on the Jefferson County Board, Joan supported rural communities and farmers. She showed the ability to bring...

Letter to the editor: Here are my thoughts on what Gov. Tim Walz should have said to Sen. JD Vance about Donald Trump during their vice presidential debate:In an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Donald Trump defended his supporters "Hang Mike Pence!" chants.He calls for "one really violent day" to crack down on...

By Anita MartinAcross the U.S., and over the last month, more pieces have been added to the bird flu puzzle, as dairy cattle in California have been infected, as has a Missouri resident whose source of exposure has yet to be determined. In less than four weeks, H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks...

"Minimal moral integrity requires that if we think something is wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it."                               -- political activist and author Noam Chomsky When Yitzhak Shamir died in 2012, his obituary in the British newspaper The...