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Quotes of theYear:

“I don’t think I will make it to spring.”— Mark Carlson of the struggles of being homeless.

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100% inflation

100% inflation “Affordability,” both Democrats and Republicans cry pointing fingers whether it is I the 9% inflation during the pandemic or the current 4.6%. Affordability is just another word for “cost-of-living” which is impacted negatively by inflation. Experts agree that inflation hurts those who can least absorb the hurt, lower income people, and especially the elderly on fixed inco...

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Don’t let vandals win

The vandal is among the lowest of the low when it comes to nonviolent criminal behavior. The thief is easy to understand. They are motivated by want and greed, whether on the petty level of a shoplifter or on the corporate scale of embezzlers. Other crimes are driven by passion or to feed an addiction. Vandals, however, channel some basic level of reprehensible evil. Vandals see something ni...

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Marathon County is a lesson in what not to do when it comes to events

Marathon County seems to just want any events in rural parts of the county to go away and never come back. The county has a nightmare of a permitting process for events in rural communities. The event permitting process requires groups to jump through hoops, fuels the power trips of paper-pushing bureaucrats, and creates a mountain of paperwork, all in the name of being prepared for any type of...

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Says it is time to move on

So orange blabber entered politics through his “questionable” wealth and celebrity status. He had no prior experience working in public office, just like his current administration. He never served in the military. He unfortunately gained public visibility as a fictional TV host, which reminds me, does television alter brain development? Anyway, our minds are wandering, dangerous and temerario...

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Says protestors were loud, obnoxious and rude

“Chanted for a few minutes.” What!??! That is certainly not the way I, and others who were there, remember it, but that is how described the actions of the group of Democrats and Indivisible members at the city park where the Taylor County Republican Party members were trying to enjoy a picnic and listen to their candidates. They were yelling at us for at least 45 minutes, to my, and oth...

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Wouldn't It Be Nice…

Democracy is loud and messy

“How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.” Throughout my childhood, my mother had a sign with that message hanging in the bathroom of her home. In a home with 10 people and two bathrooms, that pearl of wisdom and reminder not to dawdle was worth its weight in gold. It is one of those messages that has stuck with me over the years. Perspective matters a g...

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