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 Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.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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Letter to the Editor: Thanks to the Vietnam-Era Veteran, Peace with Honor
On Jan. 23, 1973, Richard M. Nixon, president of the United States, announced that the Paris Peace Accords were to be signed on Jan. 27, 1973, thus ending the Vietnam War. At the White House, that day was referred to as VV Day: Victory in Vietnam Day. There are many Vietnam-era veterans who live in […]
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Letter to the Editor: Fact-Checking Reader’s Letter
Just in time for the holidays, some local readers write in to this forum to demonstrate just how brain-damaged they are due to Acute Trump Derangement Syndrome (ATDS). For example, a Republican from Egg Harbor writes that Republicans used to be the party of “family values.” He said that he’s changed his mind due to […]
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Letter to the Editor: Seeing Door County for the First Time … Again
Yesterday I met my parents for coffee near my house in Egg Harbor. They had been driving all afternoon from Madison and were on their way to their little house in the Ephraim woods to spend Christmas and New Year’s with me and my family. During the course of our coffee break, my mom repeated […]
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Letter to the Editor: United Way a Vital Part of a Vibrant Community
As we approach the beginning of a new year, I take this opportunity to remind everyone what an important role United Way of Door County plays in ensuring that vital human-service programs are available for all of us. Through the generous financial support of so many in our community, United Way is able to effectively […]
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Letter to the Editor: Expanding Local Internet Service
Concern has been expressed that local governments are not exploring all the options for expanding local internet services. As a member of multiple town and county technology committees, I assure you that the currently available technologies for internet services are all being considered. Each internet-delivery technology has its benefits and limitations: • DSL over phone lines […]
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Letter to the Editor: Rogue Theater Appreciates Continued Community Support
It is so exciting to be celebrating our seventh anniversary and planning our eighth season! Rogue Theater began in January 2013, and since then, the company has taken theater productions to many locations in Door County and beyond. This past summer, the stage was set in the Baileys Harbor Town Hall. Since its inception, Rogue […]
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Letter to the Editor: Improvements in the Towns in Door County
Ephraim is a wonderful little town that my family and I have loved since the late 1980s. We have always loved to come up to Door County to get away from the hustle of the city – to relax and refresh for a week or so. Since those days, my husband and I purchased a condo […]
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Letter to the Editor: Gratitude for the Salute to Veterans Dinner
Many area veterans, along with family and friends, gathered at the Corpus Christi Social Hall on Nov. 9 for the second annual Salute to Veterans dinner and program – a community celebration honoring our veterans that would not be possible without parish and community support. The Catholic community of the greater Sturgeon Bay area thanks the […]
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Letter to the Editor: Rubber and Glue
The president’s behavior has become increasingly childish and immature. His choice of his latest victim, a 16-year-old female environmental activist, reflects a new low ebb, so I decided to observe a few of his world counterparts on demeanor and strategy. Take Putin: very systematic, cunning, like a chess game. Angela Merkel: cerebral, finesse, like bridge, […]
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Letter to the Editor: The Truth Will Set Us Free
The biggest casualty in the impeachment hearings seems to be truth itself. Did Donald Trump try to bribe/extort the president of Ukraine? Did he hold back $400 million approved by Congress (the “quid”) for an investigation of the Bidens (the “quo”)? Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, a Trump appointee who directly talked and listened […]
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Letter to the Editor: Criticizing Greta Shows Trump’s ‘Simple-Minded Immaturity’
President Donald Trump has displayed numerous times actions that disqualify him from being our president. Those include thousands of lies; rash, impromptu actions that are reversed just hours later; cowardliness as in his draft dodging, immoral actions and subsequent payoffs; and other acts too numerous to mention. His latest remarks, however, should convince those who […]
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Letter to the Editor: Ben Franklin and the Quarry Bluff Proposal
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” — Ben Franklin There is a lot that I like about Ben Franklin. One is his ability to condense wisdom into an understandable format. I would ask the people of Door County to think about Mr. Franklin’s point when they consider the proposal that […]
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Gratitude from the Door County Seed Library
As we near the end of 2019, I would like to say thank you to all of the supporters of the Door County Seed Library, which launched at the Sturgeon Bay Library in March. Already it has 170 members, has distributed more than 2,600 packets of seeds, and has offered 13 educational programs. Our mission […]
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Letter to the Editor: Help the United Way to Help the County
During this season of giving and receiving, it’s important to look at the lives of those around us. Families in this country and in Door County are experiencing trauma in the form of food inadequacy; lack of shelter, health care and transportation; and in many other areas. One of the traumas of which I am […]
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Letter to the Editor: Disingenuous Jacque
Senator André Jacque frequently professes “pro-life” rhetoric; biblical, dominionist groupthink; and the vile, dogmatic, religious divide-and-conquer incivility that led to eliminating state-taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin, clinic closings and diminishing affordable health-care options for thousands of Wisconsin women and families. His work undermining women’s rights over health-care decisions, access and options – thus also […]
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Letter to the Editor: A Poetic Holiday Wish
’Twas the night before Christmas in the Senate and House. Congress was not stirring, nor was the White House. Lincoln’s memorial was hung with ribbons pretty, In hopes that great joy would come to the city. The Supreme Court was snuggled all tight in its chamber With visions of legal tortes bringing great pleasure. Pelosi in her kerchief and […]
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Letter to the Editor: Door County Imports Kewaunee Manure
Yes, you read this correctly: Kewaunee manure is imported to Door County. This practice, known to very few Northern Door residents, has been going on for years but is well known to many Southern Door people as the rumble, sight and smell are hard to ignore. During peak periods more than 100 tanker trucks a […]
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Letter to the Editor: We Can Learn Lessons from Turmoil in Bolivia
It seems very distant, but current turmoil in Bolivia sheds light on an important way in which we maintain democracy in the United States. Evo Morales is no longer the president of Bolivia. Whether he was the victim of a coup or actually voted out of office, I surely don’t know; opinion in that country […]
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Letter to the Editor: Door County Parks’ Next Purchase?
Twenty years of visiting lured us. Twenty more years as full-time residents. For 16 years, we have resided on Bay Shore Drive. It’s hard to believe that the Quarry RV Village above Pinney Park is even being discussed! We consider the current owners friends. We are not trying to take away their right to profit […]
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Letter to the Editor: Opposition for Broadband Internet Towers
One-hundred-and-ninety-foot-high metal towers with guy-wires are ugly. Door County is a place of special beauty. The proposed broadband technology requires line-of-sight between the tower and the receiver. Think about what “line-of-sight” means. Now combine these sentences with a headlong rush to erect towers all over Door County with grant money to benefit a private contractor […]