Letters to the Editor, 2025
Part 2 - August through December
The latest! Expand the accordion sections below to see earlier letters.
Go to the 2025 Part 1 page for March through July, 2025.
Go to the 2025 Part 1 page for March through July, 2025.
Dec. 28, 2025: Margaret Gordon Magruder: "Crying 'till I laughed"
Dec. 27, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Our young union organizers"
August 2025
August 31, 2025: Dr JB Marshall: "Good news for democracy"
August 30, 2025: Phineas Anderson: "We cannot stand on the sidelines"
August 29, 2025: Paul Dailey: "Predicting the weather"
August 28, 2025: Dee Maitland: "Not safe from gerrymandering"
August 27, 2025: Jacolyn Marshall: "Resist"
August 26, 2025: Camille Gannon: "What's right with the world"
August 25, 2025: Teresa Jenkins: "The big rig"
August 24, 2025: Thea Chalow: "LTE challenge"
August 23, 2025: Carla O'Hara: "Change begins at the local level"
August 22, 2025: Jean Meconi: "Weak"
August 21, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Is there no justice?"
August 15, 2025: Margaret Magruder: "Nostalgia"
August 12, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Rigging the books"
August 6, 2025: Lois Postil: "The American Dream, then and now"
August 5, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Trump digs a hole"
August 5, 2025: Robbin Miller: "Just a sales pitch"
August 4, 2025: Jean Meconi: "Never seen before"
August 4, 2025: Joe Alexander: "Trump as dictator"
August 2, 2025: Thea Chalow: "Replying to 'The disaster'"
September 2025
Sept. 30, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "We should all be antifa"
Sept. 29, 2025: Camille Gannon: "DOGEd"
Sep 28, 2025: Dee Maitland: "So sad"
Sep 23, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Cruz for free speech?"
Sept. 22, 2025: Thea Chalow: "Free speech is a two-way street"
Sept. 22, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Facts or fear?"
Sept. 21, 2025: Dee Maitland: Op-Ed: Local opinion: A fact-based approach to gun regulation (full text in the pdf linked here and linked to the screen shot below)
Sept. 16, 2025: Eloise Gore: "Ruining Medicare bit by bit"
Sept. 16, 2025: Margaret Magruder: "Stop with the transgender rhetoric"
Sept. 15, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "More than 'thoughts and prayers'"
Sept. 14, 2025: Camille Gannon: "Great slogans"
Sept. 13, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Constitutional rights for all?"
Sept. 12, 2025: Jean Meconi: "Ciscomani forgot"
Sept. 12, 2025: Deena Angeley: "Jim Click Kia protests"
Sept. 12, 2025: Camille Gannon: "Everything together"
Sept. 5, 2025: Sue Swenson: "Dems in disarray - again?"
Note: For the full text of Dee Maitland's excellent Op-Ed, click on the link or the screen shot.
Sept. 2, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Nobel envy?"
Sept. 2, 2025: Bobbi Zimmer: "Trump tough on crime?"
October 2025
Oct. 29, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Tearing down Our House"
Oct. 28, 2025: Jim Lombardo: "Dr. Ruiz for Arizona"
Oct. 26, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Israel 10, Palestine 0"
Oct. 24, 2025: Teresa Jenkins: "A scar on 'The People's House'"
Oct. 21, 2025: Camille Gannon: "Campaign slogans"
Oct. 21, 2025: Jean Meconi: "Don't be surprised"
Oct. 21, 2025: Thea Chalow: "This is what democracy looks like"
Oct. 17, 2025: Dee Maitland: "Faux majority"
Oct. 14, 2025: Phineas Anderson Op-Ed: What Preserving Our Democracy Looks Like (pdf)
Oct. 13, 2025: Margaret Gordon Magruder: "Progress vs regress"
Oct. 11, 2025: Teresa Jenkins: "Freedom belongs to us"
Oct. 11, 2025: Barbara Rose Gaynor: "Care-based shopping"
Oct. 11, 2025: Gretchen Winters: "Supreme Court plays Russian Roulette"
Oct. 8, 2025: Joe Turner: "The Bunny that roared"
Oct. 8, 2025: Nancy Atherton: "Trump and his minions"
Oct. 6, 2025: Steven Freeman: "Jimmy Kimmel"
Oct. 5, 2025: Rachel Rulmyr: "Ciscomani's government shutdown"
Oct. 4, 2025: J. B. Marshall: "How small can one man be?"
Oct. 3, 2025: Camille Gannon: "Drops in the bucket add up"
Oct. 3, 2025: Margaret Magruder: "Please fact-check before you submit a LTE"
Oct. 1, 2025: Jackie Marshall: "A silent roar"
Oct. 1, 2025: Bobbi Zimmer: "A cautionary tale for Europe"
November 2025
Nov. 29, 2025: Dee Maitland: "Holiday Gifts"
Nov. 25, 2025: Sally Mayersohn: "A helping hand"
Nov. 24, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Derangement diagnosis"
Nov. 24, 2025: Margaret Gordon Magruder: "Integration"
Nov. 24, 2025: Teresa Goodell: "Restore our CDC"
Nov. 21, 2025: Teresa Jenkins: "A murderer in the Oval Office"
Nov. 17, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Healthcare should not be for-profit"
Nov. 14, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: The future of data centers
Nov. 10, 2025: Dee Maitland: What will remain
Nov. 9, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Stop waste and abuse of our tax dollars"
Nov. 8, 2025: Teresa Goodell: "We're not done yet"
Nov. 7, 2025: Dee Maitland: "The sister's heartbreak is ours, too"
Nov. 5, 2025: Margaret Magruder: "East Wing demolition"
December 2025
Dec. 22, 2025: Rachel Rulmyr: "Faustian bargain"
Dec. 19, 2025: Thea Chalow: "What really matters"
Dec. 19, 2025: Mel Strijdonk: "Farmers, fool me twice"
Dec. 18, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Framed for murder"
Dec. 17, 2025: Teresa Goodell: "Universal health coverage"
Dec. 15, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "American hijackers"
Dec. 12, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: "Loss of local schools"
Dec. 11, 2025: Dee Maitland: "Redistricting"
Dec. 10, 2025, Mitchell Anderson: "Detention town"
Dec. 10, 2025: Bruce Hilpert: Welfare for corporations
Dec. 1, 2025: JB Marshall: "Piggy"