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Anderson: Fire singes Bud Grant's dream
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Bud Grant spent a half-century enjoying and improving a tract of land that is “all gone now, all burned.” Retired Vikings coach Bud Grant walked a portion of the 400 acres he's owned for about a half-century in northwest Wisconsin. Comment?
... AND 30S DEW POINTS WILL ALLOW FOR RATHER COOL TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT. FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN FAR NORTHERN WISCONSIN. COLD-SENSITIVE PLANTS WILL NEED TO BE PROTECTED TO ENSURE THEIR SURVIVAL. VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE- ... Comment?
Motorcycles Roar Into Tomahawk
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Tomorrow classic cars will take over the streets, but today it was a motorcycle show that stretched along Wisconsin Avenue in Downtown Tomahawk. Comment?
Clement Manor To Host 11th Annual Celebrity Golf Classic
Clement Manor will host its 11th Annual Celebrity Golf Classic on Monday, July 25, 2011 at the Wisconsin Country Club, 6200 W. Good Hope Rd. Comment?
Booyah, Kooyenga! Wisconsin GOP again busy reducing citizen choices
... invasive ultrasound test. Choice! The latest example of this bait-and-switch brand of politics comes courtesy of Wisconsin State Representative Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield), a suburban conservative who apparently has decided that a University of ... Comment?
Tank Company Memorial Ceremony - Sunday (5/26) at 7 pm - Iraq vet, Micheal Hahn, speaker.
... the ceremony. I had a very pleasant surprise this week when I saw MICHEAL HAHN named in a GOOD NEWS article in the Wisconsin State Journal last Wednesday (5/22), "Man's rape conviction overturned after DNA testing." MICHEAL was the UW-Madison law ... Comment?
... AB 161 would limit the power of trial judges to block unconstitutional state laws, thus ensuring the right of Wisconsin lawmakers to enforce unconstitutional state laws with little resistance. Wisconsin residents need to file a petition against AB ... Comment?
Trauma is very common among prison inmates
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... a conversation on state corrections May 21 at Community Advocates. About a 100 community leaders showed up to hear Wisconsin Corrections Secretary Edward Wall. Jerome Dillard (left) chats with Wisconsin Department of Corrections Secretary Edward F. ... Comment?
Vacation rentals could put homeowners on the wrong side of the law
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... similar websites to rent rooms to travelers could be operating unlicensed inns, according to the trade group for Wisconsin's bed and breakfast operators. As a result, those homeowners are avoiding health inspections, license fees and room taxes. ... Comment?
Wind energy debate is about health, not politics
As one of the politicians who has "pulled out the stops" in the debate over wind energy, I take exception to the May 19 op-ed from Clean Wisconsin . Comment?
Time to invest in Wisconsin's start-up community
There has been much discussion in the state Legislature regarding job creation and helping businesses grow in Wisconsin. Comment?
Nation must do better for those who rely on food aid
... irresponsible cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps or FoodShare in Wisconsin, are currently being proposed in Congress. Many assume that the impact of these cuts would be limited and would not affect ... Comment?
Wis. raw milk farmer acquitted on 3 of 4 counts
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A Wisconsin dairy farmer has been acquitted on three of four counts in a trial related to the sale of raw milk. Comment?
In the late 18th century, famous English polemicist and artist William Blake observed that "General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer." Blake could easily have been talking about any number of "good government" groups currently operating in Wisconsin. Comment?
People who served with Richard Bong in documentary to air Monday
World War II 'Ace of Aces' fighter pilot Richard Bong of Poplar is featured in a Wisconsin Public Radio documentary which will air on Memorial Day, Monday May 27 at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. on KUWS-Superior and WUWS-Ashland . The two hour long 'Forever Ace: The Richard Bong Story' is narrated by the late Wisconsin Public Radio announcer Jim Packard. Comment?
Wisconsin firefighters, farmers map hazards online
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... grain, animals and power lines are threats, too. To help rescuers reach people quickly and safely, a handful of Wisconsin farmers - Ortner included - have been working with researchers and firefighters on an online program that maps farm hazards. ... Comment?
John Rice, vice chairman of General Electric, talks global business
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... last year, and it employs more than 300,000 people worldwide, including 6,500 who work for GE Healthcare in Wisconsin. Close to 60% of the company's revenue comes from its international markets. Rice, based in Hong Kong, has been in his current ... Comment?
Wisconsin's Northern Musky Season Begin
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The season begins Saturday. The northern zone encompasses all inland waters north of U.S. Highway 10, which roughly bisects the state through Stevens Point. Comment?
Dead Pennsylvania baby's dad believes in 'divine healing'
... healing instead of medicine, typically from highly treatable problems, said Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who has studied faith-healing deaths. In Oregon, four couples from a faith-healing church have been prosecuted, the ... Comment?
Understanding the past and predicting the future by looking across space and time
In a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere validate a fundamental assumption at the very heart of a popular way to predict relationships between complex variables. Comment?