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		<title>Growing old forests</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article is repeated from December of 2019 and is a sequel to last week&#8217;s article, “Are forests only commodities?”  Northern Wisconsin was once covered with extensive old growth forests. Before Europeans came into the area these forests were complex ecosystems with a variety of tree species of many sizes and ages. As we all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pitchfork Economics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“If you change the way you think about the economy you can change the economy,” Nick Hanauer, businessman and venture capitalist. Economics is not an exact science. The economy, and the way we carve up the economic pie, is a political and social process. It is not set in stone and can be improved. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The need for Goldilocks interest rates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence &#8230;but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.&#8221; — Adam Smith When Adam Smith published “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” in 1776, he was recording his observations about economic life in England at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remote workers would offer much needed diversity to small cities</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/remote-workers-would-offer-much-needed-diversity-to-small-cities/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, a bill aimed at saving two paper mills, one in Wisconsin Rapids and one in Park Falls, was passed in the Assembly. Three Democrats joined Republicans in passing the bill, which now will advance to the Senate. Being a Wisconsin Rapids resident, I see the bill’s passage in a positive light. I remain cautiously [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Digging Holes and Thinking Outside the Pipe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 05:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change & Environment]]></category>
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	Image: Public domain image of Alaskan pipeline “When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” &#8211; Will Rogers, entertainer, humorist, and newspaper columnist 1878-1935 As a nation we have dug ourselves into many holes. We may have thought we were digging foundations for progress, jobs, and economic growth. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Contaminated brownfields: how did it come to this in America?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kent D. Shifferd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The business is long gone, the buildings removed but the aftermath is not.  Left behind is a “brownfield,” a nice word for a site contaminated with deadly poisons, and no one left to pay for clean-up if that’s even possible. And what to do with it once it is cleaned up? Another industrial site, another [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Proven “pot-ential” for rural communities</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Senator Jeff Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Governor Evers’ 2021-23 budget will enable Wisconsinites to bounce back from the pandemic stronger than ever. His budget includes initiatives, like marijuana legalization, that will get our economy back on track and create new opportunities for our rural communities. My colleague, Senator Agard (D – Madison) often says the most dangerous thing about marijuana is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Still fighting for $15 minimum wage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the new administration sets in, I have a new hope for labor in our country. Newly elected President Biden promises a stand-alone bill to raise the minimum wage. “I’m prepared as the president of the United States on a separate negotiation on minimum wage to work my way up from what it is now,” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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