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When you don’t get your way

As a member of my local town board in rural Wisconsin, I’ve seen firsthand how decisions get made—and what it means when they don’t go your way. Recently, our board voted on a local issue tha...
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Thanks to Science Olympiad organizers for making Medford proud

Medford Area Public School District, its leadership and the entire community stepped up last weekend and showed that through hard work anything is possible. Each year, the Wisconsin Science Olympiad competition brings together students interested in science, technology and engineering. In these competitions, the students conduct tests, analyze failure points, and demonstrate their knowledge....

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Storms are a wake-up call for disaster preparedness

In the span of time that it takes to read these words, the lives of 75 families in the Marathon County community of Ringle were forever changed. On the afternoon of April 17, severe thunderstorms bulldozed their way across the state. They brought with them flooding, large hail, lightening, and high winds. Each of these brings its own capacity for devastation and harm. The storms also spawned...

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Warns Americans not to forget lessons of the past

U.S. officials and much of the media emphasize the Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its own citizens, including the killing of large numbers of protesters, while rarely acknowledging Washington’s role in enabling similar abuses in Iran’s past. Twenty-five years of horrific human rights abuses under the Shah of Iran, a close U.S. ally installed in a 1953 CIA-backed coup, have largel...

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Comfort zone

On Monday night, I did a very scary thing. In general, fear is a good thing. People have healthy fear of things like spiders, poisonous snakes, scorpions and three-toed tree sloths, because they can silently approach and then WHAMO, you are left trying to remember the first aid course you took 30 years ago before going into shock. Over our lives, we armor ourselves in a protective sphere of ...

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Postal Service should not be profit-driven

The interstate highway system is a modern marvel allowing the transportation of goods and services across vast distances, literally tying the country together. It is also a massive money sink, consuming billions of tax dollars every year to keep it maintained. The United States military is the best in the world. Through the equipment and personnel, the modern military is able to project overwhe...

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Slow ballot delivery is unacceptable

Two-hundred sixty-nine citizens in Milwaukee County had their voting rights taken from them last week because of a manufactured crisis within the US Postal Service administration to prioritize penny pinching over providing a vital public service. As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Paulina Gutiérrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said her office receive...

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