Letter to the editor: Tim Michels still questions the results of the 2020 election in Wisconsin (Bloomberg, Aug. 10). Even after Trump’s lawyers filed 61 lawsuits nationwide, winning only one. Michael Gableman, hired and paid over $1,000,000 in taxpayer money by the “fiscally conservative” GOP, failed to turn up any election fraud! ...
Category: Opinion
Radical, wrong, incomplete, obstruct: Extreme Republicans on education
Letter to the editor: Republicans continue to shift funding from public schools to private schools. Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize tuition paid by private school parents. Inequity widens when private schools choose whom they want to admit, while public schools, with a dwindling budget, must teach everyone. Grade -...
‘Rights and freedoms are on the ballot’
Letter to the editor: Our rights and freedoms are on the ballot. After decades of struggle and protest, American women finally earned the right to vote – 102 years ago. But Republican lawmakers want to turn back the clock to 1849, when Wisconsin women had almost no rights. They want to...
Michels offers plan to defund education, destroy public schools
Letter to the editor: Tim Michels, the GOP Gubernatorial nominee, revealed his education agenda that is a laundry list of the radical education talking points. First, he wants to defund public schools. Second, he wants to use those funds to support private schools. Third, he wants to politicize the classroom and...
Dems office opens in Fort
Letter to the editor: The Jefferson County Democrats will be opening an office at 511 W. Madison Ave. in Fort Atkinson. The office will be open on Saturdays, from noon to 4 p.m., beginning Sept. 17 and Tuesdays, from 5 to 7 p.m., beginning Oct. 4.You may pick up yard signs...