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		<title>Giving Up is Unforgivable</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society. We must use it.” John Lewis, former U.S. Representative and “good trouble” civil rights leader. Wisconsin has an election on Tuesday, April 7th. As John Lewis said, voting is a necessary, essential duty of citizens [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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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>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>A Longtime Republican’s Values Would be Unrecognizable in Today’s Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Fisher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kevin Hermening’s recent announcement of his run for state assembly prompted the memory of a photo my Aunt Irene happily showed me some years ago.  Over age 80, she was seated behind Mr. Hermening on his motorcycle, two committed Republicans about to go for a ride at a fundraiser. Were my aunt, a long time leader of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Labor, Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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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>A Better Way Than War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.&#8221; President Ronald Reagan. We know from long experience that wars do not solve problems. Wars are the problem and only result in death, destruction, debt and suffering. There are better ways to settle conflicts and interact with our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>History Does Not Provide a  Road Map To a Better Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each historical age deals with the same basic issues. They are dealt with different technologies, but the issues themselves would be recognized from the stone age until now. How will individuals and their social/government groups make a living? What kind of family units will exist? How will children be cared for and taught? What kind of spiritual practices will satisfy [&#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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	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 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>WE ARE STILL HERE!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OUR APOLOGIES, OUR WEBSITE HAD BEEN HACKED. WE HAVE NOT GONE AWAY! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE OUR MIDDLE WISCONSIN NEWS, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO NSTENCIL@YAHOO. COM]]></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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