| Your Right to Know | You can walk into City Hall asking to see records without ever having to give your name. (subscriber access)
Saturday, December 7, 2019
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December 5, 2019 18:11
| | Our View | Oneida County has a big decision to make, and taxpayers should look closely at what they choose to do. (subscriber access)
Thursday, December 5, 2019
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December 3, 2019 18:30
| | Lessons of service | Veterans serve our nation with honor. None of us did it for the money, the medals or the accolades. We are deployed to places where everyday citizens are oppressed, facing enemies that stand for tyranny and terror. (subscriber access)
Saturday, November 30, 2019
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November 28, 2019 17:56
| | Our View | Only days ago we opined in these pages about the terrible state of open government in the Northwoods, in Wisconsin, and indeed across the entire country. We wrote then that open government was in trouble, with a capital T, and we still believe it is. (subscriber access)
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
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November 25, 2019 17:59
| | Our View | We begin this week by quoting the words of the immortal Harold Hill in "The Music Man":
"Friend, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated .... Well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City." (subscriber access)
Saturday, November 23, 2019
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November 21, 2019 17:49
| | 860 million words and a hiccup | I lost count of the number of times my name was mentioned during Monday's Rhinelander City Council meeting. It might have been a dozen, give or take. (subscriber access)
Saturday, November 16, 2019
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November 14, 2019 18:09
| | Our View | Oneida County approved a 2020 budget this week that, when it comes to the property tax levy, was pretty benign. (subscriber access)
Thursday, November 14, 2019
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November 12, 2019 18:01
| | Your Right to Know: Protect your right to open government | Wisconsin's tradition of government transparency rests on the state's open records and open meetings laws. (subscriber access)
Saturday, November 9, 2019
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November 7, 2019 18:07
| | Our View | The Democratic Party has not functioned as a serious policy organization for a long time now, and this week's political stunt - otherwise known as Tony Evers' special session to address gun violence - only proves the point. (subscriber access)
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
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November 5, 2019 18:04
| | Our View | Once again, Oneida County district attorney Michael Schiek has delivered an open meetings decision that is impressive in its lack of clarity, a mangled mishmash of gobbledygook that is epic in its unintelligibility and abstruseness. (subscriber access)
Saturday, November 2, 2019
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November 31, 2019 18:34
| | The last word or your last words? | You learn a lot about life when your job involves processing obituaries. Countless death announcements have reached my inbox over the course of nearly 20 years in the newspaper business. (subscriber access)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
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October 29, 2019 18:33
| | Our View | As Oneida County gets ready to take up its 2020 draft budget next month, it's clear that most Oneida County supervisors, with a few notable exceptions such as supervisor Billy Fried, are just content to ignore all the fiscal red flags around them. (subscriber access)
Thursday, October 24, 2019
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October 22, 2019 17:41
| | Our View | Perhaps it was the exception that proves the rule, but this past week the Oneida County Board of Supervisors made a wise decision - for once - when it rejected an outright prohibition on mining on county-owned lands. (subscriber access)
Thursday, October 17, 2019
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October 15, 2019 18:12
| | It's time to rein in the DNR's trespassing |
As we report in today's edition, the state is pushing forward with the re-prosecution of a man who has already served a year in prison for intentionally pointing a firearm at DNR wardens but whose conviction the state Supreme Court recently overturned.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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October 24, 2017 17:42
| | Reader sounds off on wolf 'fear-mongering' | To the Editor: It looks like the anti-wolf crowd was out in force at the latest meeting of our Natural Resources Board, spouting the same tired misinformation and fear-mongering they usually do about the effect wolves have on our deer population (NRB hears wolf woes from the Northwoods, Oct. 7).
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
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October 24, 2017 17:41
| | Trump and Gold Star families |
In the 1970 film "Patton," Ed Binns portrays Lt. General Walter "Bedell" Smith, who was Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
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October 19, 2017 16:59
| | Thanks to Trump, health care reform is on the way |
If you were listening only to the mainstream media and political liberals last week, you might be convinced the sky is falling.
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
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October 17, 2017 17:37
| | Getting in a tiff over TIFs |
As we report in today's edition, the city of Eau Claire and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) have gotten themselves into a tiff over TIFs, or tax incremental financing districts.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
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October 12, 2017 17:18
| | Gunfight at the Not OK Corral |
There's trouble brewing at the Oneida County Sheriff's Office, and, if what we hear on the street turns out to be true, next year's sheriff's election might take the brew to an outright boil.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
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October 3, 2017 17:06
| | Dangerous Dan had better be
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Years ago there was an amusement park nestled in the mountains of North Carolina called Ghost Town in the Sky.
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
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September 26, 2017 17:15
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