Opinion
Over 100 attended Braver Angels Workshop
Jun 25, 2025
Thank you to everyone who attended the Braver Angels Workshop “Skills for Disagreeing Better” on Tuesday, June 17, Bluff View Elementary cafeteria. Thank you also to Lake City Public School Supt. Ariana Wright and to Community Education Director Amanda Kvasnicka for their untiring efforts to help...
Tiger Talk: Graduation, Budgets, Planning, Demographics and more
Jun 25, 2025
Every month in Lake City Public Schools brings moments that remind me just how special this community is. As we wrap up another school year, I want to take a moment to say thank you, to our students, staff, families, and neighbors for the heart you bring to our schools. Whether it’s a senior...
A community dialogue could be more effective than protests
Jun 25, 2025
While I strongly support the right to demonstrate against what protesters perceive as increasing authoritarianism, their interests might be better served if they were to offer some positive solutions to the problems they identify. All they have is an obvious and extreme distaste for anything Trump...
Save history, save the jail
Jun 18, 2025
I attended the Council meeting last Monday and it looks like the condo project across from Fresh Market is going to go through. I’m disappointed because I don’t think that’s the best use of that property, but my big worry is the jailhouse.
Nobody seems to care whether we save it or not. I just...
Students write news spotlights for class
Jun 18, 2025
Lincoln High School teacher Candance Wait has incorporated newswriting in her Creative Writing class curriculum this year.
“The assignment was for students to create 2 news stories that are real and relevant,” she said. “The stories needed to be in news format and include an interview.”
What...
After ‘No Kings,’ protests will continue twice a week
Jun 18, 2025
Perhaps you heard of the many “No Kings” demonstrations held across not just the United States, but the world June 14.
People who would like to see our country move forward in a different direction, are asked to join us for the weekly demonstrations of Defending Democracy and Justice for All at...
Kidney stones I have known
Jun 11, 2025
It kind of crept up on me about ten years ago when I first noticed my lower back was sore. I thought the discomfort would eventually dissipate but it had other plans. The dull pain gradually increased, moved a little to the right, and began to really bother me hour after hour. I tried to get...
Young people needed to rally against ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Jun 11, 2025
There is a huge need right now for young people to join midwestern seniors at weekly rallies to protest anti-democracy MAGA initiatives.
We would love for you to come with friends to energize people of all ages just waiting to be goaded into activism, perhaps for the first time. We seniors (I am...
Memorial Day event so well done
Jun 4, 2025
If one attended the Memorial Day celebration at Lincoln High School, you know how very meaningful and special the program was. The theme “honoring and remembering” focused on families and military personnel from many decades as well as each branch of the military.
A unique themed musical...
Ohl: What?, What??
Jun 4, 2025
A husband’s superpower is the ability to stare directly at his wife’s face and not hear a word she says. We are not proud of this, but we have a lot going on in our cluttered, jangled minds. I heard a woman say that no one had told her when you get a husband, the ears come separately. Many women do...
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