Mailbag

If the wages of President Donald Trump or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were the wages that were not being paid during the shutdown, I doubt the shutdown would ever have happened.

It’s hard to be angry at frequent letter writer John Pickle Jr., he of the Ph.D. and archaic views. We owe him a certain amount of due respect.

Please support Kyle Little for alderman of the sixth district. Kyle appears to be a dedicated and hard-working kind of guy.

I would like to let the people of the sixth voting district know that I believe Kyle Little is just what we need to represent us on the Portage Common Council.

President Donald Trump stayed in the White House all last week and pleaded with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to budget $5.3 billion for southern border security.

Please accept this letter with sincere thanks for your preparation and time spent hosting the Kirk Konkel Memorial Service on Jan. 13.

Now with the new governor wishing to legalize pot, the next proposal will be to make all of Wisconsin a sanctuary state.

Conservative columnist Scott Frostman alleged that Madison’s Freedom from Religion Foundation attempted to prevent him from living out his faith in his Jan. 10 column.

Someone wants $5.5 billion to complete a 2,0000-mile wall. That is $275,000 per mile.

An unfortunate event took place in my home which made it necessary for me to contact the Baraboo Police Department. I want to tell you how very special our police force has been in dealing with the situation.

It feels like being kind and unselfish is disappearing from the American culture. Keeping and gaining political power seems to be the first consideration in every decision made in government.

Sauk County Children’s Giving Tree would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the people in the surrounding communities of Sauk County. With your help and generosity, we were able to extend help at Christmas to 256 families with 671 children.

Wikipedia provides a list of self-declared socialist states. Many of them are Marxist-Leninist states in the model of the Soviet Union and each passes through the socialist phase on their way to communism.

The Baraboo Food Pantry thanks our community for another great year.

After two years of rule, here’s what we’ve learned from Donald Trump Republicans: Hypocrisy works.

As People Helping People looks forward to serving the Baraboo area in 2019, we would like to thank everyone who supported our community building efforts in 2018.

Thank you Scott Walker for the your courage and leadership these past eight years.

I don’t see hatred expressed in the prom photo, so where is the hatred we are supposed to reject? A friend said he was chewed out for believing the photo was not a Nazi salute. That’s the division I said would happen at December’s city council meeting.

Do you have a new year’s resolution? Start the new year out right and consider volunteering in your community.

The last presidential election consumed nearly two years, beginning in January 2016, and ending in November 2017. Our politicians are already jockeying for position, so we voters need to begin deciding who we vote for in 2020.

I will begin by stating that I do not reside in Portage's District 6. Therefore, I do not have a voice in your choice.

The government shutdown continues. It's about more than hundreds of thousands of public servants, most of whom live and work in communities all across the country, not getting paychecks.

Gov. Tony Evers shares a background in education and an open-minded independent attitude with another former Wisconsin governor: Gov. Lee Dreyfus (1979-1983).

On behalf of the 15th annual Free Baraboo Area Community Christmas Dinner planning committee, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who contributed to the event’s success, resulting in our serving more than 300 meals on Christmas Day at the First United Methodist Church in …