The state of Wisconsin is suing a Marinette manufacturer and an affiliated company over toxic “forever chemicals” that have contaminated waters in the northeastern Wisconsin community.
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Peshtigo town Chair Cindy Boyle calls on Natural Resources Board to approve pollution standards for PFAS in groundwater
Damage Controlman 1st Class Sharese Grey tests firefighting foam from a sprinkler on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan during sea exercises in 2018. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is suing a Marinette manufacturer for failing to report and cleanup toxic compounds known as PFAS that were used to make the foam.
Your letters to the editor: Thoughts and prayers for new gun laws
Thoughts and prayers for new gun laws — Michael Lindsay
After another tragic Wisconsin shooting, it’s time for me to send my thoughts and prayers to majority legislators.
My thoughts are that it’s time you serve your Wisconsin constituents rather than your American Legislative Exchange Council, National Rifle Association and gun manufacturer constituents. Majority legislators should be enacting laws that make our communities safer by imposing licensure for gun ownership in ways that are similar to vehicle ownership regulations and, at the very least, by restricting possession of assault weapons to authorized personnel.
PFAS are biggest problem with F-35s — Allen Ruff
Noise is not the core issue for those opposing the F-35 fighter jets.
The poisoning of the area's watershed directly attributable to PFAS chemical runoff from Truax Field is the fundamental issue facing everyone across the region. It even affects those currently in denial who busily hype the economic promise that will seemingly come about with the arrival of F-35s at the air base.
School Board needs more common sense — Jerry Darda
Madison School Board members Ananda Mirill, Ali Muldrow and Nicki VanderMeulen recently tried to redirect $35,0000 budgeted for police security at crowded school events to community groups to provide the same service.
Madison School Board backs public safety again
Mike Hernandez, chief of Madison's high schools and former principal at East High School, pointed out that getting non-police personnel to supervise these events was impractical. He said "It’s easy to sit in an ivory tower to say (find an alternative). It’s very hard when actually living it.”
Funds diverted for wall hurt military — Peter D. Fox
The bipartisan defense-funding bill signed last December by President Donald Trump made a huge “about-face” just two months later on Feb. 13 when even more military funding -- this time $3.8 billion -- was shifted to the border wall.
Total military funding redirected toward President Trump’s wall now stands at around $10 billion.
