Opinion

Justice is a core value of most civil societies and religions. It demands that people be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably. These ideals are enforced by laws that are administered by elected or appointed judges. Where harm or injustice is indicated, a remedial action is taken by a judge to put things right.

Wisconsin voters must defend democracy this April 4th election. Democracy requires that the majority of voters have the ability to change the balance of the state legislature. Wisconsinites, in at least 56 of the 72 counties, have voted, through advisory referendums, for nonpartisan legislative and congressional maps.

Brian Brown’s March 16 letter seems illogical. He compares mass shooting deaths to heart disease. He wants us to ignore how gun violence happens. Fact: gun violence happens with guns.

Last piece of Pi goes to everyone that helped make Pi Day at the Library so successful. Thank you goes to the incredible amount of bakers and then PIES (OH MY) which managed to top all previous years totals!

If you were at Viking Village Foods on Sunday afternoon, it’s possible you spotted an SUV that was absolutely coated in bird leavings. I confess it was my mess, but it wasn’t my fault.

March seems to be suffering from a mood disorder this year. One day she is sunny and kind and the next day she is flinging snow and ice around. Despite the fickleness of March, it is a hopeful time of year. All the glorious growing days stretch ahead of us and soon the snow will be behind us.

The now generally accepted use of the term WOKE in society bothers me as a linguist. I WOKE up this morning (verb, simple past tense), but I was not WOKEN by anyone  (past participle), and I WAKE up each day in the same way (simple present tense). In WAKING (present participle), I am thereafter AWAKE (adjective).

Thanks to Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Washington, D.C.'s 51,000 non-citizens and 21,000 illegal aliens can now vote in municipal elections.

What is Brian Brown trying to say? In last week’s letter he lists a number of causes of death and the total deaths from those causes, with statistics provided by the CDC for 2021 (not 2022 as he stated). Heart disease is at the top, at 695,547. He then states that gun-related deaths are at approximately 20,000 during the same period.

At the polls on April 4, it is important to remember Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly’s explicit fundamentalist views on the Bible’s authority over our Constitution, his crusade against women’s rights, his continued opposition to same-sex marriage, and his relentless assault on basic democratic principles (his support of gerrymandering, restric