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Letters

The political blame game

To the editor: Had the current administration done a simple Google search, it would have revealed the truth about the job of air traffic controllers. There is a shortage. So, no, there are not displaced air traffic controllers in the unemployment lines as a result of DEI policies. Yet our ...

Settle the matter in Legislature

To the editor: The current standoff in the Minnesota House of Representatives reminds me of days past when my sister and I were squabbling. Our mother didn’t care to get involved and just said to stop it. Both parties in the Legislature have their talking points which they repeat ad ...

Trump undoing Biden damage

To the editor: In response to the Klawitter letter. The last paragraph telling of President Biden’s executive order was foolish to keep the “United States of America” from being energy independent. We hope and pray that the Trump administration will undo the damage that this executive ...

Do you now see the clear threat to democracy?

To the editor: “Pardon the January 6 rioters. This will signal the end of democracy in America, since it will end the Rule of Law... Where the law bends to the whim of the Strong Man, who himself is above the law, (says the Supreme Court),  there is no Rule of Law. And where there is no ...

Understanding the US flag code

To the editor: I would like to clarify something that Paul Platz wrote about in one of his recent and frequent letters to the editor. It was Paul’s opinion that flags should not be flown at half-staff for a full month in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, because Paul thought President ...

Preservation of wilderness in jeopardy

To the editor: In late November a writer pleaded for the incoming administration not to make good on a campaign promise to end a ban on new mineral leases in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). I’m afraid that such a request will fall on deaf, ...