| Your Right to Know | Wisconsin's open records law applies to all records requests, big or small. (subscriber access)
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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July 21, 2019 17:30
| | Our View | No, we haven't gone crazy - readers will notice that there is an asterisk on the headline. The asterisk is: As a general rule, that's a terribly bad idea. (subscriber access)
Saturday, July 20, 2019
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July 18, 2019 18:09
| | Our View | In signing the new state budget, Gov. Tony Evers vetoed out grants totaling $250,000 over the next biennium for the Lakeland STAR School/Academy. (subscriber access)
Saturday, July 13, 2019
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July 11, 2019 17:26
| | Our view | It's always nice to have a conservative state Supreme Court - that's elected, by the way - to serve as a check on other, more liberal elected officials, notably our governor, and, far too often, the GOP-dominated Legislature. (subscriber access)
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
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July 1, 2019 18:38
| | OUR VIEW | Oneida County is without peers when it comes to zoning overregulation, and it most certainly is without peers when it comes to regulating piers - it is one of the only Wisconsin counties to do so, if not the only one. (subscriber access)
Saturday, June 29, 2019
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June 27, 2019 17:18
| | Our view | And around and around they go, the Oneida-Vilas Transit Commission and the Oneida County Board of Supervisors. (subscriber access)
Thursday, June 20, 2019
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June 18, 2019 18:20
| | Our view | Gov. Tony Evers has called his budget proposal, which is now thankfully dead, a "people's budget," but it was anything but a blessing for hard-working Wisconsinites. (subscriber access)
Thursday, June 13, 2019
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June 11, 2019 18:23
| | Our view | As we report in today's edition, there's a lot more at stake in the various challenges to laws passed in an Extraordinary Session of the Legislature last December, when lawmakers clipped the wings of the incoming governor and attorney general, than the legality of the session itself. (subscriber access)
Thursday, June 6, 2019
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June 4, 2019 17:30
| | Our view | In Great Britain, there is such a thing known as the Shadow Cabinet, technically the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet, wherein senior members of the out-of-power opposition party assume corresponding cabinet roles and scrutinize their peers who are actually in power. (subscriber access)
Thursday, May 30, 2019
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May 28, 2019 18:04
| | A better way for the future | The Joint Finance Committee has started taking votes to craft the biennial state budget. (subscriber access)
Saturday, May 25, 2019
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May 23, 2019 17:36
| | 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).
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.
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
| | Health care, tax reform: It's now or never |
Republicans can argue about immigration and dreamers, they can argue about defense spending and Russia, they can argue about trade and marijuana (yes, they are fighting over that), but there are two issues they had better stop squabbling about and pass: a health care overhaul and tax reform.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
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September 19, 2017 17:31
| | Trump makes the right move on Dreamers |
President Donald Trump pulled the plug this week on the so-called Dreamers' program that gave deportation relief to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, ending the amnesty order created by President Obama.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
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September 7, 2017 17:30
| | Tri-County executive
director responds to
recent coverage | To the Editor:
My name is Shellie Holmes; I am the executive director of Tri-County Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
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September 7, 2017 17:32
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