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		<title>Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign stands with the people of Wausau to demand clean water</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/wisconsin-poor-peoples-campaign-stands-with-the-people-of-wausau-to-demand-clean-water/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, residents of Wausau found that every single drinking water well in their municipal water system revealed higher levels of PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals”) than recommended by proposed state thresholds for these chemicals. Similar results were found in tests dating back to 2019, a fact that was not made public. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>China and Russia are not our enemies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all look forward with hope for the new year, yet we know humanity faces great challenges. Growing competition between China, Russia, and America is among them. Looking back to an article from NPR in April of 2019 (then) President Donald Trump called former President Jimmy Carter to seek his advice on China and express concern that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surplus another ‘golden opportunity’  Republicans are determined to miss</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Conniff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally published by the Wisconsin Examiner  on January 26, 2022 The announcement Tuesday that Wisconsin’s projected surplus is $2.9 billion higher than the already “unprecedented” June surplus projection was hailed by Republicans and Democrats alike. The state Democratic party credited Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, tying the news about the surplus to a record-breaking unemployment rate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Doing redistricting right</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/doing-redistricting-right/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for gerrymandered legislative districts. This is not just my opinion. It is the objective conclusion of the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) at Harvard University. The EIP compares the integrity of elections all over the world. As reported in The Guardian, “the integrity of Wisconsin’s electoral boundaries earned a 23 [out of 100] [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So you think it’s bad in Texas&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, you think the recent rulings in Texas are crushing to Roe v. Wade? Are you aware there is a 172-year-old law in Wisconsin that would again become the law if Roe v Wade were taken away? One hundred and seventy-two years&#8230; why that is 70 years before women got the right to vote! Despite [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A bad week for ‘endangering democracy’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Conklin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally published by the Wisconsin Examiner, December 17, 2021. Over the past week, Republicans — including a state senator who chairs the Senate’s election committee — have blasted Speaker Robin Vos’ 2020 election probe as a “charade” that is harmful to democracy. Newspaper editorial boards have also offered  harsh criticism, including the Capital Times, which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Public opinion be damned</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/public-opinion-be-damned/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“&#8230; the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”  This was the conclusion of research done by Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) back in 2014. They were merely elucidating the obvious. The very wealthy and big business interests [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The chaos of constant toxic competition must end</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/the-chaos-of-constant-toxic-competition-must-end/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wokeness. Victimhood. Morality. These are not the problems until we make them the problem. The problem in this era where connection is often defined by massive multi-player games and social media is the addiction to one upmanship. Literary theorist Kenneth Burke defined humankind this way: “Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ep. 25: Shop Local Serve Local</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/ep-25-shop-local-serve-local/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirk Bangstad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>If government is to work for the people, the people must work for it</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/if-government-is-to-work-for-the-people-the-people-must-work-for-it/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke Many years ago, I saw this car commercial in which a robot welded the hood of a new car shut. The imagery was that you did not need to worry about the maintenance of your car for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New regulations carry the promise of under-enforcement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Image Source: Shutterstock Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against the continuation of Governor Evers’ mask mandate. While this sounds like a big deal, many sheriff’s departments and police have refused to enforce the mandate the entire time it was in effect, therefore allowing people to go maskless in public unless a business [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nuclear weapons are now illegal</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/nuclear-weapons-are-now-illegal/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Image: A Mark 7 Nuclear Bomb at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. “It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.” &#8211; Mikhail Gorbachev “A nuclear war [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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