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Next governor needs to be able to seek bipartisan solutions

With the entry of Rep. Tom Tiffany and former Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation chairman Missy Hughes in the past week, the ranks of those seeking to succeed Gov. Tony Evers continues to expa...
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Support efforts to develop biofuel industry in Wisconsin

Wood-powered jet airplanes may seem like something out of science fiction, but that is the goal of a company wanting to turn wood products into aviation fuel. A group of state legislators, including Rep. Rob Summerfield of Bloomer, are calling for the state to approve the Forestry Revitalization Act. The bill would provide $210 million in state assistance to help attract a $1.5 billion plant in...

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Ambulance proposal is common sense savings

Taxpayers do not have bottomless pockets. People who routinely deal with buying and selling emergency equipment like ambulances and fire engines frequently forget this fact. This is especially true when it comes to the medical side of emergency services, where the astronomical costs of modern medical care bleeds into perceptions of what is affordable, fiscally responsible or even economically f...

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Put politics aside and help veterans in need

The State of Wisconsin would rather play political games than actually help veterans in need. The closure of two residences that serve long-term care needs of veterans is a mark of shame on the state and a slap in the face to all those who served their country. In what seemed, at the time, to be signs of ushering in a new era of bipartisan cooperation, last July the state passed a new biennial ...

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Do our personal beliefs need to be kept to ourselves

Let’s think about things our parents said we should never utter a word about: money, religion, and politics. Do you feel like they are filling our societal needs? From a historical and sociological perspective, money, religion and politics are all human constructs that have evolved over time. They were not discovered as objective truths, like the laws of physics, so we could say that we imagine ...

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Writer says call for peace was disingenuous?

Gee Wally, why do liberals incite violence against people they disagree with and then act surprised when that violence happens? Aw c’mon Beav, that is just how they operate. It’s quite disingenuous for to ask everyone to “peace out” after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Star News continuously ran ads on their editorial page, of all places, attributed to no one individual or gr...

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