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06 September 2023

No easy road ahead for ambulance coverage

A decades-long relationship to provide ambulance service to county residents is teetering on a knife’s edge over ongoing dissatisfaction with covera...

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No easy road ahead for ambulance coverage

A decades-long relationship to provide ambulance service to county residents is teetering on a knife’s edge over ongoing dissatisfaction with covera...

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Posted on September 6, 2023

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30 August 2023

Remember the basics of road safety with start of school year

School starts this week. We all know what this means. We all know what we should be doing to keep ourselves and others safe on the roads. We all...

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Remember the basics of road safety with start of school year

School starts this week. We all know what this means. We all know what we should be doing to keep ourselves and others safe on the roads. We all...

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Posted on August 30, 2023

Anti-SLAPP law needed to protect free speech rights

“Remember the Golden Rule! Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!” - cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart made that satirical observation in ...

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Anti-SLAPP law needed to protect free speech rights

“Remember the Golden Rule! Whoever has the gold, makes the rules!” - cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart made that satirical observation in ...

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Posted on August 30, 2023

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23 August 2023

Save a life, stay alert while driving

Star News Editorials On a recent summer afternoon, the driver on a motorcycle was heading south on Hwy 13 in the city of Medford when a car ...

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Save a life, stay alert while driving

Star News Editorials On a recent summer afternoon, the driver on a motorcycle was heading south on Hwy 13 in the city of Medford when a car ...

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Posted on August 23, 2023

Keeps EATS Act out of new Farm Bill

“No good deed goes unpunished,” Oscar Wilde When the Irish playwright and poet said those words, it was with a large measure of cynicism that ev...

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Keeps EATS Act out of new Farm Bill

“No good deed goes unpunished,” Oscar Wilde When the Irish playwright and poet said those words, it was with a large measure of cynicism that ev...

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Posted on August 23, 2023

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16 August 2023

Raid on Kansas newspaper office is a blow to press freedom everywhere

An attack on freedom anywhere is an attack on freedom everywhere. On Friday the entire 5-person police force of Marion, Kansas, along its police ...

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Raid on Kansas newspaper office is a blow to press freedom everywhere

An attack on freedom anywhere is an attack on freedom everywhere. On Friday the entire 5-person police force of Marion, Kansas, along its police ...

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Posted on August 16, 2023

Vos is off base with impeachment threats

Issac Newton’s first law of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. While Newton was referring...

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Vos is off base with impeachment threats

Issac Newton’s first law of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. While Newton was referring...

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Posted on August 16, 2023

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Aug
2023

09 August 2023

Corliss Jensen was a giant in the Medford community

Corliss Jensen left the world better than he found it. Of all the epitaphs for a man who was truly a giant in both the local community and in the ...

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Corliss Jensen was a giant in the Medford community

Corliss Jensen left the world better than he found it. Of all the epitaphs for a man who was truly a giant in both the local community and in the ...

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Posted on August 9, 2023

Wisconsin should add an off-site option to liquor licenses

It is time to divorce the location from the license and focus instead on the businesses providing the service when it comes to the ability to serve a...

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Wisconsin should add an off-site option to liquor licenses

It is time to divorce the location from the license and focus instead on the businesses providing the service when it comes to the ability to serve a...

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Posted on August 9, 2023

Strike a balance on student privacy

Your Rightto Know / Elisabeth Lambert In recent years, public schools in Wisconsin and across the country have come under intense scrutiny. At i...

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Strike a balance on student privacy

Your Rightto Know / Elisabeth Lambert In recent years, public schools in Wisconsin and across the country have come under intense scrutiny. At i...

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Posted on August 9, 2023

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No easy road ahead for ambulance coverage

No easy road ahead for ambulance coverage

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Remember the basics of road safety with start of school year

Remember the basics of road safety with start of school year

Anti-SLAPP law needed to protect free speech rights

Anti-SLAPP law needed to protect free speech rights

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Save a life, stay alert while driving

Save a life, stay alert while driving

Keeps EATS Act out of new Farm Bill

Keeps EATS Act out of new Farm Bill

16

Raid on Kansas newspaper office is a blow to press freedom everywhere

Raid on Kansas newspaper office is a blow to press freedom everywhere

Vos is off base with impeachment threats

Vos is off base with impeachment threats

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Corliss Jensen was a giant in the Medford community

Corliss Jensen was a giant in the Medford community

Wisconsin should add an off-site option to liquor licenses

Wisconsin should add an off-site option to liquor licenses

Strike a balance on student privacy

Strike a balance on student privacy

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