Letter to the Editor:

After reading Mr. Gullan’s letter (May 1 issue) about voucher schools, I felt a little clarification was needed. Mr. Gullan stated, “Private voucher schools are usually better.”

This is the headline from an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel of April 23, 2013: “Wisconsin voucher students lag in latest state test.”

The article states, “About 13% of students in private voucher schools scored proficient or better in math and about 11% scored proficient or advanced in reading . . . Milwaukee Public Schools’ overall proficiency rates of about 19% of students proficient in math and about 14% clearing the proficiency bar in reading.”

I am wondering why the state

Letter to the Editor:

My concern for several years has been the drivers who do not use headlights when driving during inclement weather.

We should use the headlights on our vehicles more than we do. The vehicles of almost 100 years ago had headlights so the driver could see where he/she was going. The vehicle also had tail lights; these vehicles traveled very slowly.

Today, we drive our vehicles 50 to 70 miles per hour. We meet vehicles in a matter of seconds. When driving,

Letter to the Editor:

As the events of the bombing at the Boston Marathon unfolded and were reported in great detail in the national media, I?was — as were most of us — horrified that two young men could murder three innocent bystanders, including one young child, and seriously injure nearly 200 others.

There can be no doubt that law enforcement did a superb job in identifying and apprehending the two suspects.

I certainly don’t mean to minimize or politicize

Three Lakes residents
have right to town records

The town of Three Lakes is requesting that former town chairman Don Sidlowski provide them with electronic copies of all correspondence he received during his four years in office, as well as copies of any emails he prepared originally or as responses.

Sidlowski has provided some of that information to Town Clerk Sue Harris, the official keeper of town records, but he failed to provide electronic copies and instead delivered a box of printed copies despite the demands of the town’s attorney.

Town officials report that the former town chairman indicated more printed

Letter to the Editor:

In a recent letter, “We condone mass murder each day in United States,” David Whittingham accuses President Obama with complicity in the mass murder of innocent babies.

Sadly, this type of hysterical rhetoric — which denies even the possibility of reasonable argument — has become commonplace. They say abortion, any abortion, for any reason, is nothing short of genocide.

It does not help that Whittingham misrepresents the Centers for Disease