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Off the Editor’s Desk 3-13-2024

Biden attacks Trump, Justices! I wonder why President Biden thinks that the American public is so dumb? During his State of the Union speech last Thursday evening he made Abortion his number one campaign issue. Of all the issues facing us today, we have a hand full of other issues that need to be addressed…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 3-6-2024

It’s really time for a change! Do you remember past slogans of presidential campaigns? Some including the “I Like Ike” of Eisenhower’s run for president in 1952 and then in 1956 it was “I Still Like Ike,” or “It’s all the way with LBJ” for Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 slogan. But, in recent years there are…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 2-28-2024

Tidbits and quotes “Ours is a world of nuclear giants, and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” —General of the Army, Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) The U. S. Senate passed a single bill that addressed aid to Israel, Ukraine and the southern border,…

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Off the Editor’s Desk – 2-21-24

There is always a need for more money! I quite often feel sorry for the people serving on elected boards that are trying to come up with the needed money to keep things together and fund improvements and funding the workforce to keep our governments working. In Wisconsin there is a state law that limits…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 2-14-2024

It’s not funny! I feel very sorry for President Joe Biden as his memory is failing him and he makes slips almost every time he gets up to speak. Recently Biden confused the current French President, Emmanuel Macron with a former French President who has been dead for almost 30 years.  Last Thursday the Special…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 2-7-24

Why are we so divided? In my mind, we have become more divided at this point in time than we have ever been before. Maybe except during the Civil War. As I watch television or read in the daily papers, many protests are featured for one reason or another, with some of them becoming violent. …

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Off the Editor’s Desk 1-31-2024

It’s wintertime! Although the weather does not feel like winter, it is officially that time of year, and this past weekend it felt more like spring. A quick look at my cell phone and the picture I took last January 31st of the thermometer in my car, which indicated the outside temperature at twenty-nine below…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 1-24-24

What’s your most important issue? What is the you important issue, facing the American people, to be addressed this fall in the presidential election? Economy, border, or taxes would be my quick guess. To me, I felt it has to be the southern border with thousands of illegal immigrants crossing into this country every day.…

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Off the Publisher’s Desk 1-10-24

What do they know that the rest of us don’t? Several news reports surfaced last week about how well the stock market is doing and that many members of congress have done much better than us regular folks. I wonder if members of congress have some inside information about the stock market that gives them…

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Off the Publisher’s Desk 1-3-24

How is your mail service? Over the past couple of years our office has fielded several calls weekly from our good subscribers that question us; “Where is my paper?” We have received reports that subscribers that have been accustomed to receiving the copy of this newspaper the day after publication are now getting it two…

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