Opinion

In late October, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections finally disclosed the number of COVID-19 deaths among people incarcerated in state prisons. That’s good news. But it’s troubling that this disclosure, which revealed that at least five state inmates have died, came only after months of delaying, obfuscating and covering up.

All of the Biden yard signs were stolen from my rural subdivision near Reedsburg (recently). Unfortunately, this is not the first incident of a thief driving around a local neighborhood and stealing people’s property. This story, however, has a happy ending thanks to Sign Santa.

This is the time of the year football, soccer, tennis and cross country track are happening around us. In the course of those events we hear much of substitutions being made where in certain situations a person best suited for a particular goal to be accomplished is substituted for someone else.

We are standing together on the threshold of the new America. Life is kind of normal, except for the cautions imposed by that miserable virus. We are planning what to make for dinner, making a grocery list or paying bills. Let the cat out, let the cat in. This does not feel like a historic occasion.

A recent poll of Wisconsin newspaper readers found most people support the statewide mask mandate and increased restrictions on indoor gatherings.

The poll, which was posted Oct. 7-18 on Wisconsin Newspaper Association member websites, asked readers what they thought of Gov. Tony Evers’s mandate.

When spoken by your employer, the words “time off” mean a lot toward the idea of resting and clearing one’s mind. We find ourselves so busy that too often we work ourselves to the point of some serious negative health conditions.