Sheboygan letters on spring elections, abortion, Urban Middle School, hazardous waste and the Freedom to Vote Act
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Appreciation for all who voted in the local spring elections
Thanks to everyone who participated in the spring election April 2.
People who learn about the issues and the candidates create the informed backbone of our civic society.
I appreciate organizations such as the Sheboygan Press, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, and the Sheboygan Education Association that provide platforms for candidates to state their positions in their own words.
I am grateful to those who supported my candidacy for the Sheboygan Area School District Board by signing nomination papers, displaying lawn signs and voting.
I look forward to serving on the board on behalf of everyone in the district with the goal of providing the best education possible for students.
Peter Madden
Sheboygan
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Dropping the rhetoric and euphemisms on abortion
Let’s drop the rhetoric and the euphemisms and deal with what abortion is really about.
A woman is free to choose, and when she chooses, an innocent child will die.
Reproductive decisions are a woman’s private business, and when she decides, a helpless baby will die.
Birthing a baby is a financial hardship and disruption to life goals, so the choice is abortion, and a helpless baby dies.
No matter the reason for an abortion, a child will die.
Regardless of the justification, every abortion kills a baby. Killing babies is never justified.
Ellis Bradford Canterbury
Sheboygan
Keeping Urban Middle School near its present location provides many advantages
Sheboygan Area School District has developed several options regarding building or updating Urban Middle School.
Option No. 3 listed on the district’s web page includes building a new school on “district-owned land.”
When the district introduced their plans, SASD did not own property on Mill Road. They have since offered to purchase property for approximately $800,00 on Mill Road for that purpose.
Building a new school on Mill Road is a mistake. District officials believe, given Urban’s attendance boundaries, Mill Road will not experience additional traffic. That logic dictates all school traffic must travel via Eisner Avenue and 21st, merging at that intersection to pass over the Pigeon River Bridge. Now, add Pigeon River Elementary School traffic. Overflow traffic will be forced to Mill Road. It is narrow and winding, lacking shoulders, bike lanes, curbs, gutters and sidewalks. Steep ravines border both sides of a severe curve. Yearly, cars plummet down those embankments. Remediating these road issues adds a sizable financial burden to city and town residents that is not included in their proposals.
SASD Option No. 2 proposes constructing a North High athletic facility on the donated Polar Ware property. A great idea. Unfortunately, this is where the wheels fall off. SASD has moved forward to purchase property on Mill Road for $800,000. This expense could be avoided by building Urban directly behind the existing school, as is being proposed for Farnsworth.
Keeping Urban near its present location provides many advantages for students and parents. Safety is one of them. Being fiscally responsible is another.
Steve Kellner
Sheboygan
Another successful event helps keep our county free of hazardous materials
Congratulations to Aaron Brault and the Sheboygan County Planning Department for their Household Hazardous Waste Disposal event that took place at the Sheboygan County Highway Department in Plymouth April 6. It was another successful effort to keep our county free of hazardous materials.
This department makes it easy for our county citizens to drive through the garage and deposit their no-longer-usable materials, without littering the county landscape.
The county employees are especially helpful.
Mark your calendars for the next Clean Sweep Collection events June 7 and 8 this summer at Maywood Park and the county garage in Cascade.
Paul Gruber
Sheboygan
Support the Freedom to Vote Act
I am a regular citizen grandmother from Sheboygan who has had the right and opportunity to vote since 1975. What do I want? That same right and opportunity for everyone.
The recently reintroduced Freedom to Vote Act is a crucial bill in the House and Senate, featuring essential provisions:
Automatic, same-day and online voter registration;
Expanded early voting and vote-by-mail options;
Restored voting rights for citizens who have served their time;
Measures against election sabotage and partisan interference;
Strong anti-gerrymandering criteria for fair representation; and
End secret, dark money in elections.
In other words, the Freedom to Vote Act sets fair national standards for us to safely and freely cast our ballots, ensure every vote is counted, end gerrymandering and elect people who will deliver for us.
Our senators, Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, and U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, need to deliver the Freedom to Vote Act, the most transformative piece of democracy legislation since 1965’s Voting Rights Act, to the American people.
Geralyn Leannah
Sheboygan
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