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Peninsula Pulse Letters Policy

As of 03/15/2019

Do you have an opinion you’d like to share? Please email it (preferred) to [email protected]; submit it online at doorcountypulse.com; or mail it to Peninsula Pulse, 8142 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202. Email letters@ppulse or call 920.839.2121 if you have questions.

  • Letters must be sent to [email protected]. Letters are limited to 350 words. Letters must include the author’s name, daytime phone number, mailing address and email address, but only the author’s name and town/state of residence will appear in the paper.
  • We will publish only one letter  by a given author within a 30-day period. Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.
  • The Peninsula Pulse reserves the right to edit and refuse letters, to add titles to or retitle them, and to print them at the time of our discretion.
  • All opinions expressed in letters are those of their authors and not those of the Peninsula Pulse, its owner or staff.
  • Personification

    Ms. Ross recently [Sept. 24-Oct. 1 issue] used my original letter to further her “Christian” agenda, though she appears to have misunderstood my intent. I was writing about “the smartest one in the room”: a reference to those who think their beliefs, which have not changed since childhood, qualify them to run others’ lives through […]

  • We Don’t Need Vigilantes at School Board Meetings

    The Legal Brief column by Joan Korb in the Sept. 17-24 issue of the Pulse, “Vigilantes in America,” was spot on. Her account of vigilantism in America was very thorough, and I learned many interesting facts. It seems so un-American to see school-board meetings in our state and country facing people who interrupt the meetings […]

  • Nonpartisan Mapmaking a Difficult Task

    Most people will tell you that gerrymanders are unfair. They are the result of adjusting the boundaries of an electoral constituency so as to favor one party or class. These boundary adjustments are required every 10 years based on updated census data. The political party in power decides where the boundaries go. Reformers want every […]

  • A Solution for Michigan Street Bridge Hits

    How many times, over how many years, have large vehicles hit the Michigan Street bridge? And in all that time, none of the so-called “experts” have been able to come up with a way to keep it from happening? Come on, this isn’t rocket science here. All that needs to be done is to install […]

  • Free Land Giveaway

    On Oct. 4, the Town of Sturgeon Bay supervisors received a request for vacation (abandonment) of a portion of a town road as well as some undeveloped roads within a subdivision. This request originated from owners of two different salvage yards within that subdivision.  Because Door County zoning has ruled that these salvage yards are […]

  • History Is Accessible!

    I am writing in response to a letter to the editor in the Oct.1-8 issue of the Peninsula Pulse by Ruth Chase concerning the inability to view the memorial pole at Peninsula State Park Golf Course.  The memorial pole has always been accessible to golfers and tourists who wish to visit it. I have given […]

  • Miracle

    This is my opinion and suggestion for those of you who are claiming religious reasons for not being vaccinated for COVID-19. Think of it as a miracle from your savior to protect you from yourself. Be well, brothers and sisters. Pete Thelen Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin

  • There’s Still a Chance for the Unvaccinated

    I am 74 years old. I was vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella. I did not get mumps, measles or rubella. I was vaccinated against diphtheria. I did not get diphtheria. I was vaccinated against whooping cough. I did not get whooping cough. I was vaccinated against tetanus. I did not get tetanus. I was […]

  • Kindness Appreciated

    A big thank-you goes out to the kind person who brought the lovely ceramic angels to Pine Crest Village for our residents to enjoy. I had been a resident here for only a couple of weeks, and it was such a wonderful addition to my apartment. At the time they had been delivered, the caregivers […]

  • In Favor of Reducing Speed Limit on Highway 57

    I am disappointed with the state Department of Transportation (DOT) decision to not reduce the speed limit near Maxwelton Braes. This stretch of road has cars coming out of Björklunden after attending Door Shakespeare after dark during the summer; a condo at the south end of the Maxwelton property; a worker garage for the golf […]

  • The Adulting of Rebecca Kleefisch

    During a recent interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rebecca Kleefisch said her approach to COVID-19, if elected governor, would be “trusting adults to do their own adulting.” Of all the various mandates applied, of testing, tracing and masking inside, of school shutdowns and Zooming to work, experimental treatments (some quite berserk), dispensing vaccines as […]

  • Inaccessible History

    Why are two important Native American historical sites in Door County inaccessible to the general public?  My family and I recently spent a lovely week camping at Peninsula State Park and enjoyed many wonderful experiences during our time. However, we were confused and frustrated by the pompous lack of regard for Native American history by […]

  • Support Policies for Emissions Reduction

    Citing an “unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters,” including ferocious hurricanes, devastating floods and record heat waves and wildfires, a group of 14,000 scientists from 158 countries has issued a report declaring a climate emergency. The paper also warns of critical tipping points in the climate system, such as the Greenland ice sheet and Amazon rainforest. […]

  • Kudos to Health and Human Services

    In April of this year, the Department of Public Health added some additional temporary resources in the form of registered nurses to assist with the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. We are working with Public Health staff and EMS to vaccinate at drive-through clinics in Sturgeon Bay, Sister Bay and on Washington Island.  I want to […]

  • A Defense of Differing Worldviews

    This letter is in reply to Diane Evenson’s letter to the editor in the Sept. 10, 2021, edition of the Pulse (“‘Saving Babies’ Won’t Get You to Heaven”). Although I would not qualify myself as “the smartest person in the room” (that’s quite the achievement, depending on who is in the room and who is […]

  • In Support of Local School Employees

    Although we can’t begin to know what our local school district employees are up against while working in their schools as educators, cafeteria workers, building maintenance workers and other school personnel during these first weeks of school, we do know this: What you are doing is hard. You are going to work every day in […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Investigation of November Election a Wild-Goose Chase

    The Wisconsin Republican legislature is planning an “investigation” of the November election, using taxpayer funds for attorney fees, travel, communications and “data analysis” of voting machines in Wisconsin. The investigation will cost $676,000 in tax dollars for what? A wild-goose chase, given that the election has been investigated numerous times, all challenges showing no evidence […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Our Democracy Imperiled

    President Biden wants to end a two-decades-old war that could never be won and that cost the United States dearly in lives and treasure, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants him impeached.  Never mind that our former president signed off on the agreement to leave Afghanistan. Never mind that our former president undermined our […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Changes in Voting Laws Would Protect Election Integrity

    In Mr. Mike Brodd’s letter recently published in the Pulse [Aug. 20, 2021, issue], he makes an important point but glosses over it. That is: only citizens have the right to vote, not “residents.” There is a very important constitutional distinction. Any permanent change to voting laws needs to require that distinction be adhered to.  […]

  • Letter to the Editor: A Note to the Vaccine Doubting Thomases

    I recently found vaccination records from when my family received polio vaccines. It took at least six years of receiving the vaccine before it was safe for us not to get polio. Polio is highly present in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and because so few are vaccinated, the disease continues to spread. Because of vaccines, most […]