letters

The proposed photo ID amendment to our state constitution is a threat to our right to vote. We are all getting older. As we age, many of us give up...

After spending a sleepless night last night, I feel compelled to respond to Peggy Karsten's Public Forum letter found in the Monday edition of the West Central Tribune. Ms. Karsten...

I am writing in response to a letter from Eric Nordstrom that appeared on this page Oct. 8. He criticizes my recent letter that suggests that we look closely at...

If the Republicans passed all the voter restrictions that they have proposed, due to 86 cases of fraud in five years, approximately 5 million voters will be disenfranchised throughout the...

Our Constitution should protect freedoms, not take them away. It is time for me to speak up for the people I love. A local physician wrote of his concern for...

They hope that you have forgotten all about it because they are up for election in November. Although most states had budgetary problems during the Great Recession, Minnesota was the...

Years ago, before there was lots of technology, underground miners would take canaries with them when they went into the mines, the reason being the canaries could sense ground tremors...

The Democrat Party convention promoted abortion as a woman's right to make a life or death decision over another human. As speakers concluded their remarks, including President Obama, they said,...

Ronald Reagan said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." As I read some of the...

Our Willmar City Council is fixed, they should be applauded! The hand-wringers and complainers ought to review what our City Council and mayor have accomplished these last 12 months. An...

State Rep. Bruce Vogel has done an outstanding job of supporting initiatives to help make health care more affordable and accessible for rural Minnesotans and the elderly. Instead of supporting...

Kudos to council member Doug Reese for publicly voicing his frustrations over the Willmar City Council's actions. And kudos to the West Central Tribune for the editorial on Sept.

To those who oppose the marriage amendment: Has it ever occurred to you that many who support the amendment support it because to them "marriage" has always meant the union...

They say negative campaign ads work... but in rural Minnesota, nobody likes it! A recent letter to the editor about our local campaigns said "let the mudslinging begin." I worked...

Thank you, Councilman Reese. Well said. Ken Warner President Willmar Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce