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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, consumi...
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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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Choices

Are you a red or a yellow household? Or maybe you are one of those green folks? You’re not a blue are you? Like so many choices in life, this is one that can seem fairly inconsequential — a one-off decision made at the spur of a moment when you needed to get something done. Throughout life we are faced with choices. The choices are sometimes made in spur of a moment like deciding the ...

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Writer says opposition to referendum was over curriculm

the week before election and received this reply from Brian Wilson: 'Good morning Ed, Publisher/owner Kris O'Leary instructed me to let you know we would not be running your letter. It is the longstanding policy of The Star News to not run election-related letters the week immediately before an election because it does not give time for responses from other viewpoints.' Here is the reason wh...

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Kneeling to genocidal maniacs will bring WWIII

If humans were asked, who is the rational amongst them? I’m positive the narcissist would insist, “Why me of course!” What do we have for a president, a narcissist. These people are the ultimate black hole of ego. A narcissist’s brain generally has no concept of self-awareness, even if it did, they will hide it. They truly believe they have no faults, period. Donald Trump asking some...

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Voter privacy protections needed

A recent political mailing has some local residents seeing red and raises legitimate concerns about how election poll lists will be used in the future. The mailing in question supported a candidate in Tuesday’s Supreme Court election. It listed the name of the homeowner and some neighbors, identifying them as supporters of a political party, with the implication that they would also support t...

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Stop the political games

Wisconsin could have brought some common sense and clarity back to state government last week, but Gov. Tony Evers instead chose to play another round of “gotcha last” politics. On Friday, Evers vetoed a bill that would keep appointees from staying in their jobs beyond the expiration of their terms. The intent of the bill is to close a bus-sized loophole in state law that currently allows g...

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