Letter to the editor: Wisconsin has traditionally been, and continues to be, politically purple. In 2022, when Tony Evers edged out Scott Walker for the governor’s seat, he did so by a 1 percent margin. In that same election, Republicans claimed a whopping 64% of State Assembly seats, a...
Category: Opinion
Fuller: ‘Gathering and Sharing’ story initiative comes to local libraries
By Jill Fuller A year before my grandfather died, I sat with him and asked him questions about his life. He told me stories about his childhood and his immigration to the United States that I had never heard before. We laughed over funny vacation stories from when my dad was...
‘The Abortion Divide’ shows ‘the reality of abortion’
Letter to the editor: In 2019, the PBS news program Frontline aired a documentary entitled "The Abortion Divide. " Much of it was filmed at an abortion clinic in Philadelphia. In one segment, we follow a clinic employee into a lab. Inside, other workers are examining the remains of the...
Pro-life? Pro-birth
Pro-Life? Pro-Birth.Letter to the editor: My friend and his wife have a three-year-old daughter, and just brought their newborn son home from the hospital. They overheard their daughter asking her young brother, “What is heaven like?”Her logic is that babies come from heaven, and since he had just arrived, her brother...
Nation at a crossroads: Johnson or Barnes
Letter to the editor: Our nation is at a crossroads. Voters have the choice this fall to continue the values of greed and disrespect shown by Ron Johnson, a senator who questions the value of Social Security and Medicare while approving huge tax cuts for the wealthy and helping to send...