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 Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.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

    Here are some observations, a few questions, and many clarifications at the dawn of a time of great uncertainty. There are many concerns plaguing the conscience of humanity in this day and age. There is much fear. There are few true leaders. We are much talk and little action. We are quick to judge and […]

  • Letter to the Editor: A Better Use for $20 Million

    The state has finally acknowledged that Kewaunee County has a groundwater problem. A $50,000 report that was paid for by taxpayers through the Wisconsin Public Service Commission stated that a $188 million project is feasible to address groundwater contamination from Kewaunee County farms. The report studied the use of pipelines to pump 86 percent of […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Too Much Krall

    Does George Krall have ownership in the Pulse? Why is his divisive rhetoric printed in almost every Pulse issue? You would be better served promoting Door County than a liberal ideologue! Get your act together Peninsula Pulse! Thomas Moore Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

  • Letter to the Editor: The Lost Weekend Found

    I must say, I didn’t want to get out of bed on Jan. 20. The thought of Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of these United States was frightening. But, like a true American retired person, I put on my bathrobe and turned on the TV. I made it as far as the carnage, and […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Dazzler of a Rant

    It took me five minutes to read a letter to the editor in the Jan. 20 Pulse from a Fish Creek fellow who groaned over some 20 complaints he has with the world around him. It took 10 minutes more to look up all the word definitions in his rant and about a half-hour trying […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Doctor Feelgood Is Fooling You

    The latest in the attempt to defraud the electorate and the people dealing with contaminated drinking water and impaired lakes and streams (aka Biogas Digesters) is nothing more than snake oil being sold by “Doctor Feelgood and Associates” (aka Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Dairy Business Association). Citizens have been required to provide volumes of […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Anaerobic Digester Not Feasible in Kewaunee

    In my opinion, the anaerobic digester is not a feasible system to effectively improve farm wastewater for discharge to waterways. The reason is, it would require more than 500 digester tanks of 12 million gallons each to treat a volume of 200 million gallons per day, assuming a 30-day retention. This also assumes the wastewater […]

  • Letter to the Editor: It Took 60 Years

    Almost exactly 60 years prior to our recent election, the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, had a few thoughts and words for ambassadors from the West. The date was Nov. 18, 1956, barely 10 years after the end of World War II, before the Berlin Wall was erected, but at the time when […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Meeting ‘Partners in Compassion’ Campaign Goal

    Good Samaritan Society-Scandia Village would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of our Capital Campaign Committee members, to all campus residents, to all GSS-SV employees, to all members of the SCAND Auxiliary, and to the entire community for helping us achieve our $8,000,000 “Partners in Compassion” Campaign Goal. Thanks to the generosity of […]

  • Letter to the Editor: It Was a Sunny Day

    Accuweather had forecast a sunny day in Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington. Instead the day was cloudy with intermittent drizzle. Many in the crowd jokingly claimed Mother Nature was in mourning. Yet the crowd was positive, supportive, and often jubilant as chants leap-frogged across the masses. “Tell me what democracy […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Actions Speak Louder than Words

    The folly of choosing one of the more egregious polluters in both Door & Kewaunee County as the face and mouthpiece for the Peninsula Pride Farm organization – was not well thought out by PPF and diminishes its credibility. In a county suffering from a third of its tested wells contaminated by high nitrates, e. […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Call DNR, Legislators to Protest Climate Misinformation

    I am greatly troubled by the DNR’s recent decision to revise its webpage on climate change to state that current planetary changes are “being debated.” It used to say human activity was the primary cause. Given that more than 97 percent of publishing climate scientists are convinced, based on the evidence, that human-caused global warming […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Hikers, Stay Off Ski Trails

    While grooming the ski trail at Potawatomi State Park today I found more footprints. Either these people cannot read or they are “special” and rules don’t apply to them. Hikers destroy the ski trail and make it difficult to ski. Groomers put in many hours trying to make the trails nice only to have hikers […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Deja ‘Blue,’ All Over Again

    Crumbling district roads, completely unabated CAFO-produced liquid manure pollution, threats from his own party leadership to dismantle the DNR, ever multiplying public education dollars siphoned off to religious schools (disregarding the oath of office in the constitutional separation of church and state), no improvement in living wage jobs to be seen anywhere, not a single […]

  • Letter to the Editor: The Perfect Political Storm

    Republican obstructionism against Obama began in 2008 at secret meetings led by Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell and continues today with efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and other Obama initiatives, all in order to wreck his legacy. Trump was elected by the accident of an outdated electoral college system and by getting votes […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Silencing Our Voices?

    In a recent letter to the editor, the Pulse was admonished to keep its “editorial commentary” to “beer, food, nature, the arts, etc., not politics.” While I won’t debate this letter writer’s personal politics, to suggest that “politics” should be off limits to the Pulse is at best patronizing, and at worst, smacks of dangerous […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Why I Voted in Favor of the Egg Harbor Library Community Center

    I’ve served as a trustee in the Village of Egg Harbor for 17 years. It comes as no surprise that in the course of time and service I’ve had to make many difficult votes; voting in favor of the Egg Harbor Library Community Center was not one of them. Here’s why: It’s essential for a […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Staff and Resources Needed, Not Reorganization

    The recent announcement by the Department of Natural Resources that there will be yet another reorganization to “improve” the efficiency of the department has to be taken with a grain of salt. We have been here before and can expect similar results. Specifically, my expectation is that changes to how environmental permits are issued to […]

  • Letter to the Editor:  Confronting Water Contamination in Kewaunee County

    After more than a year of meetings, the rollout of recommendations last June, more scrutiny the past six months since June, the Kewaunee Co. Board will vote on a resolution to accept these recommendations at their Jan. 19 meeting, beginning 6 pm, at the administration building in Kewaunee. The county board not only needs to […]

  • Letter to the Editor: Right to Life Walk on Jan. 21

    As we mark 44 years of legalized abortion, the Door County Chapter of Wis. Right to Life will again be having a silent Candlelight Prayer Vigil Walk on Saturday, Jan. 21, starting at 6:30 pm, meeting in front of the Government Center, 421 Nebraska St., and proceeding to the hospital. This silent prayer vigil walk […]