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Letters

How Trump compares to ‘pretty good’ presidents

To the editor: What do Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan have in common? They are all Republicans. They are former presidents. (They were pretty good presidents.) Does Donald Trump belong among them? I don’t think so. Actually, Trump wasn’t even a ...

Courage of a windsock

To the editor: U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad was hooted off the stage at an Eggs and Issues event, 8/12/25, sponsored by the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce. In a recent email to constituents (“Finstad in the Field,” 11/15/25), he claims that the event was “rudely disrupted by ...

Hell hath no fury like MAGA scorn

To the editor: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the array of Epstein/Trump scrapbook photos worth? The words coming from the President’s Democratic critics are plentiful enough. But the questions emanating from the president’s usually sycophantic MAGA acolytes are ...

The truth on crime in D.C.

To the editor: Trump is deploying National Guard troops to D.C. and West Virginia (red) and South Carolina (red) have announced they are sending National Guard troops to D.C. as well. Trump has singled out Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities in blue states ignoring the crime rates in red ...

Americans need to call out religion extremism

To the editor: Pete Hegseth has made it clear he believes women have no place in the military. Recently, he expressed  agreement with an evangelical religious extremist, Doug Wilson. Wilson and Hegseth state women should not have the right to vote. These men theorize that males should always ...

History repeats…repeatedly

To the editor: The current administration is constantly looking to eradicate histories that it considers “woke”...whatever the hell that means. But let me tell you...just because denialists choose to reject histories with which the Right is uncomfortable, doesn’t make these histories ...