Opinion

Trump’s name resembles the French verb “tromper”, “to deceive”. This felon/presidential contender certainly lives up (or down) to this definition. He has recently tricked many who consider themselves good Republicans into accepting him as their hero, and (gulp!?) religious leader.

Maybe your parents and even your grandparents always voted Republican, and so have you. But you’re having a problem this time. You don’t want to vote for Donald Trump to be president of the United States but you don’t want to leave the party that your family has been loyal to for all these years. Stop feeling bad.

Art Naebig's August 29 letter using three pedestrian vignettes to discredit Donald Trump again exposes the writer's bogus concern for this country he says can only be saved by voting for the Marxist-contaminated Democratic Party.

In 2016, former President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Republican led U.S. Senate blocked Garland's appointment. Garland is a native of Obama’s Chicago.  President Biden nominated Garland in January of 2021 and was confirmed by the senate shortly after.

Whining, a democratic specialty, is surely apparent this election cycle. Certainly, destruction of yard signs and other political items are despicable, however why is it only when their signs get damaged?

School is back in session, and with help from the community, Helping Hands was able to provide supplies and backpacks for 224 children from 109 families in need of assistance to start the year. We're thankful to everyone who contributed to and participated in this year's School Start Program.

As go the bats, so go we. We rarely recognize how interdependent we are with other species until their populations decline and we begin to feel the consequences. A shocking recent study has shown us the human implications of the decline in the bat populations due to white nose fungus.

I can’t help hearing the old Friskies jingle whenever I see cats rolling around or batting at catnip toys. If only they all had such ideal existences.

Last March, the Wisconsin Examiner asked the Black River Falls Police Department to search for emails regarding the death of a missing Indigenous man. The department said it would process the request but the news outlet would have to pay $4,400. That’s the amount the city’s IT vendor, Tech Pros, quoted to perform the search.

Bless those Amish families for showing us how to live as good neighbors. They have been quick to forgive and move on. We can learn a lot from them. But before we move on, we have to wonder what we are teaching our children.