Your letters: Reader supports Lamont for Marathon County Board
Dear editor, I would like to say a few words in support for Bruce Lamont. Bruce is a candidate for the soon-to-be vacant spot on the Marathon County Board, a…
Your letters: Humans at critical juncture of evolution
Dear editor, It is now the year 2020, 30 years since Voyager was sent back to us from 4 billion miles away. We appear as but a speck of dust…
Your letters: Reader favors Mielke in Wausau mayoral race
Dear editor, The residents of Wausau are in an enviable position: Two very qualified and progressive candidates for mayor to choose from. Katie Rosenberg has done outstanding work on the…
Your letters: Wisconsinites have fallen victim to gerrymandering
Dear editor, We all have issues or concerns we care deeply about. For me, growing up in Marathon County, it was always educating our community’s youth, ensuring our state maintains…
Your letters: Reader supports Zunker for 7th Congressional District
Dear editor, As a small businessman in central Wisconsin I have many responsibilities. Besides caring for my own family, I take seriously my role in helping my employees provide for…
Your letters: Reader defends, supports mayor’s actions
Dear editor, Do ethical lapses by a candidate for local office matter? It is easy to say, “Yes, of course they do.” But, what if there was a pattern of…
Your letters: Gerontological nurse practitioner proposes actions needed to combat coronavirus
Dear editor, Explanation of the problem: If you’re over 80 years old, the risk of dying from coronavirus is the highest of all age groups at 15 percent. The average…
Your letters: City leader accuses Pilot & Review of actively participating in elections
Dear editor, As reliable as the seasons, it’s election time and city projects are politicized: the long needed sewer and water plant improvements, the purchase of the mall by the…
Your letters: Coronavirus a ‘manufactured scare’
Dear editor, One of the things I now appreciate most about the education system I grew up in, is that it taught us to challenge everything. To ask questions and…
Your letters: Trump – too little, too late
Dear editor, At a time when conscientious, well-informed leadership is needed, we’re facing the coronavirus outbreak with a floundering president. Donald Trump has not been one to seek or follow…
Your letters: Writer defends letter to editor on tax cuts, Jobs Act
Dear editor, This is in response to Kevin Hermening’s Feb. 2 opinion letter in which he said my Jan. 31 opinion letter was full of inaccuracies and falsehoods, and that I…
Your letters: Member of mayor’s re-election steering committee details support
Clarification: Mr. Torkko is a member of Mayor Robert Mielke’s re-election campaign steering committee, a fact that was not disclosed to us at the time of this publication. Wausau Pilot…
Your letters: Weston board member to hold open door meetings
Dear editor, I believe the government closest to the people governs best. It is the most responsive to the needs of the community and has a powerful impact in our…
Your letters: Democratic Party needs united front
Dear editor, It’s about time for the Democratic Party to get its act together and put forward a united front — especially to independent voters (myself included) and disgruntled Republicans.…
Your letters: Writer argues Tom Tiffany’s case in elections
Dear editor, Yesterday I received a piece of trash in the mail. It was a flyer that claimed that Tom Tiffany hasn’t paid taxes for a number of years. Another…
Your letters: Writer pleads for end to inequality, racial disparity in Wausau
Dear editor, Since 1989, the top 1 percent has gained over $21 trillion in wealth while the bottom 50 percent has lost $900 billion. This has happened while most economic…
Your letters: ‘I have become an unapologetic conservative,’ says reader
Dear editor, Conservative con·ser·va·tive (kən-sûr′və-tĭv) believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society; disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.…
Your letters: 2017 tax cuts not beneficial to low- and middle-income folks
Dear editor, Why don’t you feel as though the 2017 tax cuts and Jobs Act helped you? •Because unless you have very high income, the federal income tax rate cuts…
