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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Fire the Facts by Paul Hambleton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You Can&#8217;t Fire The Facts By: Paul Hambleton &#160; President Trump’s firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer—an accomplished, bipartisan-confirmed economist—for releasing unfavorable job numbers is more than political overreach. It’s an attempt to erase reality. But here’s the thing about truth: you can’t fire it, silence it, or make it disappear. Facts have gravity. They always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative Will Bring Cheaper Bills, Better Health, and Renewable Energy to Rural Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release Sepember 5, 2024 Laurie Lane: 608.215.0112 laura@healthyclimatewi.org &#160; New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative Will Bring Cheaper Bills, Better Health, and Renewable Energy to Rural Wisconsin &#160; La Crosse, Wisconsin – President Biden announced today that Dairyland Power Cooperative will receive nearly $573 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)&#8217;s Empowering [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Marathon County Central Labor Council Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 04:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ADRC-CW 2021 Aging Plan Public Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Help Pollinators By Collecting Wild Common Milkweed Seedpods In Select Central Sands-Area Counties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 7, 2021 Contact: DNR Office of Communications DNRPress@wisconsin.gov&#160; Help Pollinators By Collecting Wild Common Milkweed Seedpods In Select Central Sands-Area Counties &#160; The DNR seeks donations of mature milkweed seedpods from select Wisconsin counties to aid plantings on state prairies. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BOOKS TO READ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; How would you describe 2020? Alarming, chaotic, enraging or all of the above? Here are some books to help you make sense of it all. Editors of YES magazine chose these books. &#160;  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis  ”A splendid offering of wisdom, warmth, and inspiration to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FACT OR FAKE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Our world is filled with misinformation. Here are non-partisan sites for you to check out what you read. &#160; AP Fact Check… The Associated Press website, an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting, founded in 1846. &#160; Fact Check …a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center &#160; Fact Tank: News in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TRY WRITING A LIMERICK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; How are you dealing with all of the stuff going on in your world right now? Have you tried writing a limerick? Here are some samples to get you going. &#160; A painter who came from Great Britain Hailed a lady who sat with her knittin’. He remarked with a sigh, “that park bench—well, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE SKILLS ARE ALIVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 06:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	THE SKILLS ARE ALIVE VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL SKILL BUILDING SATURDAY OCTOBER 3RD 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM Democracy on Fire- with Center for Popular Democracy Bird Dogging- with Center for Popular Democracy Open Records- with Sheila Plotkin Signage- with Nate Timm Live Streaming- with Dan Folkman Movement Through Music with Tom Castle NO CHARGE  MORE INFO [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CIVIC HEALTH IN WISCONSIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; (This article is based on a report from the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)   Wisconsin joins 30 other U.S. states in measuring civic health and building the program to make improvements. Civic health refers to the interactions of people with neighbors, friends and relatives. It also refers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WORDS FROM REP. JOHN LEWIS (1940 &#8211; 2020)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; (John Lewis left us his great legacy. He also gave us words to live by as we continue the march.) &#160; “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year. It is the struggle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ENBRIDGE IS RE-ROUTING ITS PIPELINE IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Enbridge (the Canadian company) runs a pipeline through northern Wisconsin and through the Bad River Reservation. &#160; The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe filed a lawsuit and won. Now Enbridge is planning to remove a 12-mile segment of its Line 5 from the Bad River Reservation and bypass the reservation with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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