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Letters

Brad Finstad is selling out our future

To the editor: Congressman Brad Finstad remains on the DOGE caucus in full support of Elon Musk’s illegal dismantling of important services. The firing of Social Security Administration employees further shows that this unelected billionaire and his team of rich kid sycophants don’t care ...

A great dealmaker’s bad deal

To the editor: A Social Security Administration audit by an Inspector General (“Preventing, Detecting, and Recovering Improper Payments”) was released in July. It found less than 1% in improper payments from 2015 to 2022. An actual audit is what Congress should be using in the process of ...

US House budget resolution threatens your health care

To the editor: Brad Finstad, along with 217 Republican Representatives voted in support of the budget resolution that cuts billions of dollars from social welfare programs. If this budget passes in the Senate and is signed by the president, it will lead to massive cuts in Medicaid. Medicaid ...

Stand with Ukraine

To the editor: I have been watching in disbelief and horror as President Trump recently and dramatically reversed the US position on the Russia/Ukraine war. Within the past two weeks Trump has attacked President Zelenskyy, calling him a dictator (“Did I say that?” yes, you most certainly ...

Watching it happen all over again

To the editor: In my 76 years living and prospering in this great state and nation, I have seen many great achievements and great failures. I remember JFK assassination. I was in the National Guard during the Vietnam mistake. We saw the planes hit the World Trade Center, thankfully on TV. We ...

Trump’s empty promises

To the editor: Last year during his successful presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised that he would end the war in Ukraine on Day One of his presidency. We are now into month two. Yet the war rages on. Tuesday I woke up to headlines that said the United States sided with Russia in a ...