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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 Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.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.

  • Letter to the Editor: ‘I Am Uncomfortable’

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    I am uncomfortable watching Trump lie (give misinformation) about matters related to the pandemic and politicizing everything involved with it while he continually ignores the obvious need to begin a public discussion about how we’re going to distribute the essential items needed to move forward in fighting this virus, but which are in short supply.  […]

  • Letters to the Editor: May 15-22

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    Who Are the Very Good People? The nurses and doctors, janitors and housekeeping staff, bus drivers, meat cutters, fishers, farmers, shippers, grocery store employees, Navy sailors, National Guard members, firefighters, police officers and members of the press are those who face COVID-19 every day to do their jobs so that we can stay healthy, fed […]

  • Letter to the Editor: ‘Sad Comment about the Prevailing National Culture’

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    We recently received a circular offering “grub control” to kill beetle larvae in soil. Poisons used for this have the following ingredients: cyzmic-cs, lambda-cyhalothrin, Imidacloprid and trichlorfon. All are toxic, especially to aquatic life, and all may be absorbed through the skin.  Such poisons don’t stop with “target” creatures but kill widely, laying waste to […]

  • Letters to the Editor: May 8-15

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    From a Main Street Market Customer to Fellow Customers I read the well-written letter that Sophia Bley submitted to the May 1, 2020, edition of the Pulse with both disappointment and annoyance – not with Sophia, of course, but rather, that she felt compelled to write the letter at all. Back in March, when this was […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Opposed to Extending Safer at Home Order

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    I do not agree with Gov. Evers’ decision to extend the Safer at Home order to May 26, especially in Door County. The figures don’t warrant the extension. There is a Wisconsin population of approximately 5.85 million, with 2.875 individuals with coronavirus, which is .07 percent of the population; and 198 individuals have died, which […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Distance Results in Decrease

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    Why are sincere, concerned people angry enough to rally to cancel safe policies, silence governors and reopen businesses and beaches in spite of the risk to their health and postponing the end of COVID-19? Distance results in decrease, as demonstrated on charts showing the spread in states and countries where leaders enforced stay-at-home policies for […]

  • Letter to the Editor: A Letter to Main Street Market Customers

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    Thank you for being cooperative during these hard times. Things have been chaotic since we closed our doors and asked you to leave your shopping to us. We were not prepared for anything like a global pandemic to happen, so we are still trying to adjust to this new life. Our system isn’t perfect, but […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Concerned about the Barker Child Development Center Closing

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    I would like to express my concern over the recent announcement of the closure of the YMCA Barker Center. It was announced on April 22 that the center would be closing to regular childcare and reevaluating childcare programming in the fall. They moved to offer an older children’s day-camp offering for ages four to seven.  […]

  • Letter to the Editor: ‘It Is Time to Get Back to Life’

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    Our county’s lifeblood is our economy. Without it, we do not have the means to pursue all of the things that we love about being here. Broadly described, we sit on a three-legged stool: local life, seasonal residents and tourism. They are all intertwined, and each depends on the others. Take one away, and the […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Our Festival Is Canceled; Our Pride Is Not

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    Out of concern for the health and safety of all community members, Open Door Pride has canceled our fourth annual festival, scheduled for June 27 in Martin Park. We are one of many organizations needing to cancel major events, and our hearts go out to all those impacted. Although the Pride Festival is the most […]

  • Letter to the Editor: COVID-19 Testing: Can We Get Serious?

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    Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, National Governors Association leader, asked President Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to expedite COVID-19 test production. Trump’s response was that the U.S. already leads the world in testing. On April 20, the cumulative total number of tests conducted in the U.S. reached 4 million: more tests than any other country […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Fixed-Income Challenge

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    Many of us here in Door County are living on what’s called a “fixed income” – you know, Social Security and a small IRA or savings.  This countrywide shutdown has an impact on those of us on fixed incomes: We do not get out. We do not go out to a Friday-night fish fry. We […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Protest

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    There is plenty in our current situation to protest. We might begin with the virus itself, but it has no human conscience. We could go on to protest economic systems around the world that put so many millions of working people at risk by cultivating inequality.  We could come closer to home to protest an […]

  • Letter to the Editor: My Experience with Changing Habits around Litter

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    I enjoyed the article “Changing Habits: Classic Anti-litter Campaigns” by Myles Dannhausen Jr. because it reminded me of a project I worked on in 2014, when I was tasked with writing ecotourism management plans for three national parks in Bangladesh.  The country is extremely challenging to work in. Air, water and land pollution are prevalent, […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Be Safe

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    Robin Vos, speaker of our Wisconsin Assembly, is encouraging protesters to go to Madison to support suspending the Safer at Home order. I suggest that Mr. Vos and the protesters sign an agreement that says, “I don’t want help if I or a family member gets COVID-19.” That agreement should be posted on their front […]

  • Letters to the Editor: Apr. 24-May 1

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    Thanks from Helen Bacon I would like to thank all of you who encouraged and supported me as your county board supervisor. It has been a real honor to serve you. I have learned more than I gave, made friendships I wouldn’t have made otherwise and had my mind opened to so many new things. […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Two Votes That Didn’t Happen

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    Folks in Door County may not have had firsthand experience with the loss of their ability to vote in the April 7 elections, but the decision to hold the election despite the coronavirus pandemic meant that many Wisconsin voters were unable to participate. I would like to share a story about my mom, Denny Stratte, […]

  • Letter to the Editor: The Writing Is on the Wall

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    Even though Door County was featured in a recent New York Times article about quarantining in place, even though Wisconsin has now set a punishable-by-law statute saying that unnecessary travel is prohibited, and even though most people should know better, the signs of early tourist and second-home-owner migration are upon us. Why? They would think, […]

  • Letter to the Editor: We Need Specificity!

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    Why are we not told where our nine COVID-19 patients have been in the county? To say that the people these infected people have been in contact with are being notified is not enough. Shouldn’t we know when and where these people have been – for example, was the infected person in Walmart on Wednesday […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Simple Facts

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    • U.S. population: 5 percent of the world’s population • U.S. confirmed coronavirus exposure: 30 percent of all of those exposed • U.S. coronavirus deaths: 19 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths (You can confirm these facts on the Johns Hopkins interactive map on the internet.) The coronavirus started in China, then went to Japan and South Korea, […]