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		<title>Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign stands with the people of Wausau to demand clean water</title>
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		<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>The chaos of constant toxic competition must end</title>
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		<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>Defending America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine for a moment America has undergone an attack from a foreign nation. Incendiary bombs have been dropped on the west coast. Fires rage out of control. Over 80 people were killed in one town as it burned and several other villages have been leveled. The attack is relentless. The gulf coast was also hit. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Keeping pests away doesn’t have to be toxic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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	Several summers ago, I developed a recipe for a skin-friendly bug repellent I named Vamp Away. It is designed to repel ticks and mosquitos mainly, but with a few modifications, it can also be quite effective at repelling fleas and gnats. I gave it the name that I did because it is meant to keep these [&#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>Discrimination isn’t always a bad thing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Image source: Shutterstock When you hear the word discrimination, what comes to mind? Likely you equate the term with prejudice. But one doesn’t need to prejudge or generalize in order to discriminate. If you ran a business and certain parties regularly wrote out bad checks to your establishment, you would likely maintain a list of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joint Finance Committee designates funds to in-person schools</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) announced that they will use $68.6 million (10%) of federal funds designated for K-12 schools to reward schools offering in-person instruction. This money will be awarded to school districts based on the number of hours of in-person instruction provided during the 2020-2021 school year. This does not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Legislature strikes mask order; Governor reinstates four hours later</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Ivey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to understand what legislators, who voted to eliminate the mask protections in Wisconsin, believe they&#8217;ll gain by their decision. Don&#8217;t they realize how many Wisconsinites could be harmed or die as a result of their vote? Assuming they’re not deliberately trying to kill Wisconsinites, do they really think &#8220;Individual Freedom&#8221; gives people [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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