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Identifying opportunities to strengthen WI’s emergency response

Identifying opportunities to strengthen WI’s emergency response Identifying opportunities to strengthen WI’s emergency response
Wisconsin is expected to face more frequent, more severe extreme weather events in coming years. Residents rely upon a network of local and state agencies and community organizations to prepare our co...
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Celebrating all of our workers

Monday is Labor Day. It is the traditional end to the summer season, just as Memorial Day marks its unofficial start. As with the holiday that marks the popular start of summer, there is much more to Labor Day than picnics and truck pulls. Labor Day honors those who work throughout the year to make American great. It is the day to celebrate the workers, not only the people with calluses on t...

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Cyber… things
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Cyber… things

Hello September! Goodbye to the bulk of summer as we move forward into fall. We will still have good...

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Remembering those days of milking
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Remembering those days of milking

The sea of fog and mist spread out before me, enveloping the farm valley and extending into the hill...

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Childcare crisis needs funding to be addressed

Public funding for childcare is a direct investment in Wisconsin workforce and would be a boost for Wisconsin businesses and employers. Wisconsin desperately needs workers. Wisconsin needs workers on farms, in factories, in offices and in retail. Each month, tens of thousands of public and private sector jobs across the state go unfilled. Still more jobs never are posted, because there is no on...

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A tale of taters – my musings on potatoes
BY CHRIS HARDIE
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A tale of taters – my musings on potatoes

Most weeks this column focuses on a single topic, but sometimes it’s a mashup, blending two or mor...

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The path from the Depression to oligarchy

Before the Great Depression, our government followed a mostly laissez-faire capitalist philosophy. Laissez-faire means that the government should mostly keep its hands off of regulating and refereeing the free market that represents capitalism.That didn’t work very well. In the 1920s it led to great concentrations of wealth in a small class of businessmen and corporations. Farmers and small busi...

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