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 Multiple letters by different authors addressing similar topics may be omitted, and in most cases, we do not publish letters that have appeared in other publications.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: Ribbon Cutting Time in Kewaunee County
On July 29 at 12:30 pm, Governor Scott Walker will be in Kewaunee County and will be a featured speaker at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on behalf of the Kewaunee Harbor Restoration Project groundbreaking event. This project is a timely project that was funded by taxpayer dollars to the amount of $4.2 million. This will […]
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Letter to the Editor: Vote for Experience in Recall
I have followed with increasing concern the news and editorials regarding Sevastopol School District’s recall of school board members in the paper. I received a number of phone calls to sign a petition for a recall accusing certain school board members of inappropriate use of public funds. Alarming accusations if true! So, I attended the […]
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Letter to the Editor: Where Are the Black Cops?
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, have given us glaring hindsight of the potentially explosive mix of a predominately white police force within a predominately black neighborhood where some racial tensions are bound to exist. But it doesn’t take much foresight to see this would be the case in many similar circumstances. So, where are […]
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Letter to the Editor: Welcome Jim Crow
Congratulations are certainly in order for Representative Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay) for using his public office to issue a July 13 campaign press release announcing his intention to pursue Louisiana’s “Blue Lives Matter” legislation, which adds the potential for “hate crime” penalty enhancements against any citizen [targeting] state law enforcement. Kitchens, knowingly or not, is […]
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Letter to the Editor: My Opinion on Sturgeon Bay Waterfront Development
I feel Door County, first and foremost, needs a development that can bring year-round income and jobs to existing business. Another hotel is simply not the answer as existing [ones] struggle to stay afloat during offseason and finding help is also an issue in a tourism-based economy as we have. The proposed project could [relocate] […]
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Letter to the Editor: Hatred Does Not Solve Problems
By any set of objective measures I know, Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for President we have seen for a hundred years or more! Obama said that she may be the best candidate ever. Who else among the candidates you can remember had her legislative experience and broad knowledge of international affairs, coupled […]
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Letter to the Editor: And So It Goes
True to form, like the last eight years of doing nothing, Congress is at it again; going home with a clear conscience, taking their seven-week vacation, without passing a Zika virus funding bill. The reason was the Republicans had tacked on a decrease in funding for women’s health. It sure appears, for whatever reason, Republicans […]
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Letter to the Editor: Recap RNC Day 1
Republicans consumed with fear and hate. Trump appears and says we’re gonna win, win, win. Pete Thelen Baileys Harbor, Wis.
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Letter to the Editor: Why All the Surprise?
The latest Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau report, revealing deficiencies in the DNR’s regulation of water pollution, has evoked responses of “surprise” from various leaders, including the Natural Resource Board, Governor Walker, and those serving in the legislature. For those of us living with the resulting contamination due to lack of enforcement, the audit lacked the […]
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Letter to the Editor: We’re Committed to Sevastopol
The Sevastopol School Board has been dealing with complicated personnel issues involving multiple staff members. These issues required legal counsel to insure employees’ rights and district’s rights were protected. As reported in the July 2, 2016 Advocate, there is an agreement in place limiting what can be disclosed about these matters. Sue Todey and I […]
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Letter to the Editor: Incineration Is Not Recycling
The Green Bay Press-Gazette article, “New wood recycling effort cheaper for businesses,” published on June 30, mistakes burning wood in boilers as a form of recycling. Incineration is not recycling. Making new products with waste material, including wood, is recycling. While keeping wood out of landfills is certainly good for the environment, burning it in […]
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Letter to the Editor: Confidentiality Required By Law
For the past 10-plus years, I have had the privilege of giving my time, talent and resources to the Sevastopol School community as a member of the school board. At this time my fellow board member Bill Behme and I are faced with the possibility of a recall. Therefore, I find it necessary to share […]
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Letter to the Editor: Can We Control Ourselves?
The GOP has found a scapegoat for their failure to enact common sense gun control: it is ISIS. After the massacre at Orlando Senator McCain laid the blame on President Obama saying that his policies in the Middle East were responsible for the rise of ISIS and that ISIS was implicated in the Orlando shooting. […]
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Letter to the Editor: As Promised
Just as promised, my insurance premiums have gone down, the earth is definitely flat and the President has cancelled his golf game to take Hillary to meet Bill on an undisclosed tarmac. Attorney General Lynch has saved the taxpayers additional money when attending her Denver conference by first flying from Washington to Phoenix as a […]
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Letter to the Editor: Please Support FOPPI
As chair of the Friends of the Grand Traverse Islands (FOGTI), it may seem strange for me to be asking you to financially support the Friends of Plum & Pilot Islands (FOPPI) when we have our own financial needs, but that is exactly what I am going to do. Why? I’m a Door County […]
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Letter to the Editor: Pagel Promises Obstruction
Claiming that significant “momentum” is underway by farmers in Kewaunee County and defining that as the “right direction” to be finding a balance between clean water, public health and industrial dairy financial profit, while addressing known groundwater pollution in Kewaunee County, John Pagel, the county’s largest liquid manure producer and chair of the Kewaunee County […]
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Letter to the Editor: Save Resources for Future Generations
My wife, Lynnann, and I are both retired professionals who have recently chosen to move our place of residence to Door County. We believe that Door County is our heaven on earth. We also hope it can be that same special place for our children. We were thrilled to see the article in the recent […]
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Letter to the Editor: Kudos for Signing Ceres Climate Declaration
Congratulations to the many Door County businesses that have signed the Ceres Climate Declaration [volume 22, issue 26]. While state and federal governments stonewall and protest loudly that going green will hurt the economy, businesses in Door County and across the nation are quietly proving that this is not true. These businesses are looking ahead, […]
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Letter to the Editor: Sailing into Summer
The Ephraim Yacht Club (EYC) wishes to thank and acknowledge all of the Door County merchants and businesses that have generously contributed items for the 2016 EYC Aaron R. Moore Sailing Scholarship fundraiser and silent auction. The scholarship program provides sailing scholarships to the youth of Door County that otherwise would not have the resources […]
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Letter to the Editor: Many Thanks to Write On’s Volunteers
A bouquet of thanks to the Open House committee, volunteers, and participants at Write On, Door County’s 3rd annual Open House on June 12. The grounds at Write On in Juddville buzzed with activities celebrating National Children’s Day. Special thanks to our featured children’s authors/illustrators: Miranda Paul, Mary Ellen Sisulak, Jill Petra Harding, Kate […]