Gilbert Engel

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Dear Editor, 

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Can one be on both sides of the same issue?

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Does democracy survive in this country? The bases of a democracy in a country that is multilingual, has a wide variety of religious beliefs, has a multiracial population, and has a broad range of political/cultural viewpoints creates in my mind a necessity for safeguards in the governing institutions.  What are those safeguards in my mind? One is voting that is available to every citizen in a fair and easily accessible way.

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Editor:

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Is this a country dominated by fear? To me fear results in responses such as isolation, suspicion, irrationality, violence, discrimination, panic, and extremism. This appears to be the state of the country today. We saw it recently in a young person kill for knocking on a door, a young women shot for turning in a wrong driveway, and several innocent people of color killed by police and civilians. Fear has made this country the most dangerous and violent country in the western world.

Gilbert Engel - Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Is the USA more violent? If you watch the news and political ads, you would likely answer yes but what does the evidence say. My sources are The FBI records, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics as part of the Census Bureau’s annual National Crime Victimization Survey. In these sources, the rate of violent victimization dropped from 79.8 per 1,000 in 1993 to 16.5 per 1,000 in 2021.

Gilbert Engel – Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Dear Editor:

Gilbert Engel – Letter to Editor

Published Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Who can release felons from prison early?
To answer that, I need to know the laws governing parole and release. There are two laws that apply because of a change in 1999. According to Wisconsin law, any inmate who committed the offense before Dec. 13, 1999 will be granted parole when 2/3 of the sentence is served unless there is clear current evidence of a threat to the public or a refusal to follow medical and treatment recommendations.

Gilbert Engel’s Letter to the Editor

Published Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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