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		<title>Marathon County Earth Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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	Get ready for spring and Earth Day! Tree planting will take place on Saturday, April 25 at 11 AM at Schofield Park on 606 E. Randolph Street, Wausau. Any questions, please contact Dan Barth at dmbarth57@gmail.com]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Kings March 28</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	Join us as many of the local groups come together for this big event. League of Women Voters of Marathon County, Indivisible. and the Marathon County Democratic Party. Disgusted with the way so many things are going in our country? I am mad as hell and I know you feel the same. The situation is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ginger Murray Meet and Greet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/ginger-murray-meet-and-greet/"><img title="ginger reschedule" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ginger-reschedule-232x300.jpg" alt="Ginger Murray Meet and Greet" width="232" height="300" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	Due to the incoming bad weather, Ginger Murray, candidate for the 7th Congressional District, has rescheduled her Meet and Greet. The new date and time is Sunday, March 22 at the Wausau labor Temple.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Rights of Nature Bills</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr William Van Lopik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; *photo credit: Rep. Vincent Miresse &#160; Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Rights of Nature Bills &#160; Wisconsin legislators celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day by introducing a package of bills at the State Capital that will go a long way to protecting our fragile and deteriorating environment in Wisconsin. Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) who is from the Menominee Nation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Radical Climate Agenda</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Landsman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 10/7/25, NPR reported that the EPA had cancelled a Biden era program, Solar for All (SFA), along with a $25 million SFA grant to the Hopi Reservation where nearly 3,000 people lack access to electricity and the rest have unreliable electrical service. Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the grant would’ve supported solar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Smart Investment for Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Too many people think of public services as expenses. Public spending is a burden on taxpayers that must be reduced and controlled. But taxes are the dues we pay for civilization. Taxes provide the capital needed to invest in all the things we need for a successful society. Public spending fuels the investments in people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NO KINGS ON OCTOBER 18</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>This is why we feed kids at Thanksgiving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; This is why we feed kids at Thanksgiving: ​Hello everyone, Growing up in a single-parent, low-income household, I’ll never forget the strangers who showed up with food and gifts during the holidays. Their kindness inspired me to give back. That’s why I started this project—and thanks to your generosity, in 9 years we’ve raised $106,753.65 and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sacred Sites, Not Corporate Influence, Deserve Protection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Belle Ragins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/sacred-sites-not-corporate-influence-deserve-protection/"><img title="Sacred Sites, Not Corporate Influence, Deserve Protection" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/koehler-andrae-300x300.jpg" alt="Sacred Sites, Not Corporate Influence, Deserve Protection" width="300" height="300" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	After years of court battles, Kohler can begin construction of a luxury golf course on land eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and home to Native burial sites. A federally mandated 2018 archeological study of the original course unearthed human remains in seven locations. Kohler is now exploiting a legal loophole. After the courts revoked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid, Medicare Cuts Hurt All, by Pam Fricke</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Editorial Board]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Pam Fricke We were promised the Trump Administration would not cut Medicare or Medicaid benefits.  President Trump himself said it over and over and over again. Well, folks, brace yourself for more broken promises. You will see big changes that will hit home here in St. Croix County. All Wisconsin Republican members of Congress, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Food Stamp Folly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We all do better when we all do better&#8221; was the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone&#8217;s simple, yet profound, statement of economic truth. In a stable, sustainable economy no one should be left behind even if they are poor or not as “productive.” This is not just kindness or charity. It is a recognition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saving PBS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Can&#8217;t have the kids being groomed by Antiques Roadshow.” This statement is from a cartoon by Jen Sorensen talking about the defunding of public broadcasting. The humorous, but perceptive,   cartoon explains the ridiculous reasoning behind Republican attacks on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. &#160; Back in 1961 Newton Minow, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, famously [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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