Category: Letters
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 Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.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.
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Letter to the Editor: Law Enforcement Should Heed Call to Ban Use of Native American Logos
The National Congress of American Indians has called for a ban on the appropriation of Native American images, names and cultural symbols. Schools and sports teams respected the call and retired their Native mascots, which they now recognize as offensive and disrespectful. Evidently, some Wisconsin law-enforcement agencies never got the memo. The Sheboygan Press reports […]
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Letter to the Editor: Protect Frontline Workers by Getting Vaccinations
Hang on, health care and other essential workers. I can only imagine what you are feeling. Perhaps it may feel like being on a roller coaster going up, up, up, knowing at any minute you will be plunging straight down. Nothing you can do to stop or slow it down. On June 1, this writer […]
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Letter to the Editor: Narrow Window Remaining for Substantive Climate Action
One of the most disturbing conclusions of the latest “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” report is the permanence of climate impacts. Changes like shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels and oxygen depletion and acidification of the oceans are deemed “irreversible for centuries to millennia.” An April 19 article in Carbon Brief, “Climate change could cause […]
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Letter to the Editor: Gibraltar is Hurting our Kids and Taxpayers
Last month the Gibraltar School District Administration put out a new handbook for the upcoming school year. The biggest topic was, and still is, masking and COVID policies. Not education. The decree sent down from the top was masks were optional for seventh-12th grades, but K-sixth grade masks are required. Moments after that, all the […]
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Letter to the Editor: Citizens or Ostriches
Many people tune out what they consider to be “politics”. Some feel political activity is a waste of time, some believe all politicians are crooks, and still others have deeply personal reasons for not engaging in public debate. I want to encourage my fellow citizens to take current political realities seriously and thoughtfully. In some […]
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Letter to the Editor: Commitment to Community Demonstrated at House & Garden Walk
As we celebrate the 60th year of the Door County House & Garden Walk, we pause to reflect on what a “60-year legacy of commitment to community” means. Thanks to the generosity of our homeowners, sponsors, volunteers and those who attended the July 27 House & Garden Walk, we raised more than $61,000 for the […]