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		<title>Banning Gerrymandering</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Governor Evers has called a special session of the legislature for April 14th to pass a constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering. Extraordinary public pressure will be needed for this important reform to have any chance in the Republican controlled legislature. Prior to the latest redistricting compromise, Wisconsin had the worst gerrymandered legislative maps in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Supreme Court Election April 7</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Wisconsin April 7 is the spring nonpartisan election. The statewide issue is the election of a Supreme Court justice. Across the state there are many nonpartisan local government and school board positions on the ballot and 72 local school funding referendums for voters to approve or reject. Historically voter turnout for spring elections has [&#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>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>Red Counties Dependence on the “Deep State”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/red-counties-dependence-on-the-deep-state/"><img title="Screenshot" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Map-of-red-counties-on-the-dole-300x208.jpg" alt="Red Counties Dependence on the “Deep State”" width="300" height="208" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	“One of the most enduring conservative myths is that of the self-reliant, salt-of-the-earth, rural-dwelling American who pulls himself up by his bootstraps&#8230;If that were ever true, it hasn’t been for a while. These days, rural America is largely dependent on the federal government it claims to hate.” &#160; This quote is from an article in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left vs. Right is not the Issue, Rather Democracy vs. Extremism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the political left that our current administration attacks vehemently and relentlessly? It is not a single entity of opposition to any current leader, nor does it describe any single political position.  The political left describes a broad spectrum of ideologies that favor governmental reform in the general direction of more social equality. This political [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More on political violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has a lot of damn gall accusing Democrats and liberals of inciting political violence. Since 2015 he has been a primary source of inflammatory, divisive, hate-filled political rhetoric that  encouraged violence by his supporters. He is the only president in our history to incite a mob to attack Congress. &#160; In the past [&#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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	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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		<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>YOU CAN&#8217;T FIRE THE FACTS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Editorial Board]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[YOU CAN&#8217;T FIRE THE FACTS by: Paul Hambleton 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 come [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Food Stamp Folly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:47 +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>Another Black Eye for United States</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryce Luchterhand]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has revived the practice of separating small, immigrant children from their parents. His first administration seized over 5,000 immigrant children to discourage other immigrants from entering the United States. A federal judge halted the practice in 2018. Five years later, some of those families have still not been reunited. The Trump administration claims [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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