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	<title>Bruce Grau &#8211; Middle Wisconsin</title>
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		<title>Hot Evaluation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	Let’s look at the results generated from the first 6 months of the latest version of Wausau’s Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), presented to the City’s Public Health and Safety Committee recently. &#160; This is based on their assumption there are 30-50 unhoused Wausonians. 20 have been engaged with by their outreach specialist. Of those twenty, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fear Mongering and Hate Will Divide Communities</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are truly for equality, let&#8217;s disband all the County Board Committees that include non -elected citizens, or keep them all. If you truly think we don’t need to deliberately nurture relationships between races, faiths, ethnicities, and gender identities because we’re “all good” in Marathon County, then you should be really surprised and angered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign stands with the people of Wausau to demand clean water</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, residents of Wausau found that every single drinking water well in their municipal water system revealed higher levels of PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals”) than recommended by proposed state thresholds for these chemicals. Similar results were found in tests dating back to 2019, a fact that was not made public. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Want a shovel ready project? Clear the sidewalks!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 06:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am trying to understand why the city of Wausau has forced us to navigate poorly cleared sidewalks along Grand Avenue. It&#8217;s not like we haven&#8217;t had an eternity of experience to know how to manage snow on sidewalks. The rough geography of the remaining snow following brushing has made it difficult even for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vigil to be held for Wausau’s homeless</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/vigil-to-be-held-for-wausaus-homeless/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Northcentral Chapter of Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign (WI PPC) is holding Wausau’s first Vigil for the Unhoused on the day that has the longest night of the year, December 21st, starting at 2:30 p.m.on the 400 block. This is in conjunction with a national Winter Offensive organized by the National Union of the Homeless [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>City of Wausau should rethink bonuses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[compensation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to say a big “thank you” to our city workers, all of whom have endured the challenges and hardships of the pandemic to keep the essential work of the city going, and at a high standard of quality. They should all be acknowledged for their effort and dedication to the public. A $1,000 bonus is incommensurate with their efforts American [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Neighborhood Investment Program is meant to fund needs, not wants</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/neighborhood-investment-program-is-meant-to-fund-needs-not-wants/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Economic Development Committee (EDC) has told the city of Wausau that it has applied for $10.5 million from the Neighborhood Investment Program to fund a pretty pedestrian bridge in Wausau’s Opportunity Zone (WOZ) &#8220;vision” for the redevelopment of the former Wausau Center Mall. Neighborhood Investment Program funds are meant to assist local governments in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women&#8217;s reproductive health under fire from an unjust system</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/womens-reproductive-health-under-fire-from-an-unjust-system/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My name is Bruce Grau and I am a member of the Coordinating Committee for the Wisconsin Poor People&#8217;s Campaign, including  our chapter here in Northcentral Wisconsin. We support the struggle of women to receive holistic sexual and reproductive care as well as healthcare in general. I want my daughters and the generations after theirs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wausau school board can still do right by workers, parents and students</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/wausau-school-board-can-still-do-right-by-workers-parents-and-students/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our schools are now back in business, as is the Delta Variant of COVID. Hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise, reaching unprecedented numbers for children and individuals, and not just those suffering from chronic diseases! Amidst this backdrop, the Wausau school board still has the opportunity to provide the success of a full year [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Environmental and social justice resolutions needed for Wausau</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/environmental-and-social-justice-resolutions-needed-for-wausau/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why are we now seeing a surge of calls for acknowledgement and justice for marginalized and underrepresented groups in our community? Business as usual has failed them and we won’t be silent anymore. What’s best for business and the Chamber of Commerce hasn’t trickled down to poor, low income, working class, and people of color. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign holds teach-in</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/wisconsin-poor-peoples-campaign-holds-teach-in/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On June 13th, the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign (WI-PPC) held a virtual statewide discussion analyzing three major areas of Governor Evers’ proposed State Budget impacting the lives of working class Wisconsinites: health care, housing and worker justice. While there is much the WI-PPC supports in the Evers proposal, it is simply insufficient to meet the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remediate contamination to meet housing need in Wausau</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/remediate-contamination-to-meet-housing-need-in-wausau/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Because of its popularity as a murder weapon, thallium has gained notoriety as the ‘poisoner’s poison’ and ‘inheritance powder’ (alongside arsenic)” -Wikipedia. Thallium was banned in the US in 1972. At 1300 Cleveland Street, in the most diverse and working class area in the the city of Wausau, it is all in the soil, along [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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