Opinion

Thu
29
May

Letter: Students learn valuable lessons about relationships

Hope House of South Central WI has partnered with our school to provide meaningful, age-appropriate prevention programming for middle school students focused on promoting healthy relationships, addressing harmful social behaviors, and preventing teen dating violence.

Thu
29
May

Around the Block, May 27, 2025

In a childhood absolutely soaked in anxiety I did what any industrious kid would do and I found solutions. Solutions to the inevitable and myriad problems facing the anxious life.

Thu
22
May
Thu
22
May

Letter: Texas’ Abbott threatens funding over Israel

Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) threatens to cut funding to San Marcos if the city embargoes Israel.

It's important to note that in 2021, two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa, Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel, co-authored an op-ed concluding that Israel had become an apartheid state.

Thu
22
May

Letter: Lies repeated do not become truth

Art Naebig's May 1 fair warning about President Trump is as tiresome as those we've had to endure for the past 10 years.

Thu
22
May

Nature and Society: Weather and cuts

Life feels more precarious than it used to. That's partly because I'm old and life IS more precarious. But part of my insecurity comes from places that surprise me. In the past, I spent very little time thinking about government services like FEMA and the FDA and the EPA and NOAA (the weather folks.)

Thu
22
May

STANEK COLUMN: The myths and facts following graduation

Didn’t we just celebrate Easter? How did graduation arrive so quickly?

High school graduation still is one of the best days of my life, and I hope it is too for all this year’s graduates.

So here’s some encouragement from someone who’s experienced a whole lot of good and bad stuff. Hopefully, I can dispel a few myths, too.

Thu
22
May

GUEST COLUMN: Wisconsin’s long history of local control, wake board regulations

We’ve all experienced the upsetting phenomenon of being “pushed out.” Remember that recent office meeting when somebody would not stop dominating the conversation? Or that time at school when some big kid pushed you off the swing set? It feels unfair, even unsafe.

Thu
22
May

A View of the Valley May 22, 2025

The spider that once lived my sink in the bathroom is long gone. I left it to grow and make its home in the high corner because bugs, you see, are important and I’ve been reading that they are in crisis. (Don’t get all technical on me. Spiders are bugs in my vocabulary.)

Thu
15
May

Letter: China is not an ally

Without playing Democrats and Republicans, would anyone care to take time and effort to sift past the hot air of propaganda, searching and logically comprehending the long-term benefits vs the short-term pain of Tariffs?  President Trump said up front, there will be pain.

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