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Off the Editor’s Desk 10-25-2023

I was on vacation last week. I flew to Orlando Florida with a group of five for a week of rest, relaxation, taking in the sights, and warm weather, with plans to return on Saturday, October 21. I was quickly made aware of the high cost of entertainment here and found tickets to one of…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 10-18-2023

I could tell them why they can’t get anything done! A piece came across my desk last week from a newssheet called “Wokelish” that contained a story that caught my eye. The heading read; “Congress Passes Bill to fund Study on Why Congress Can’t Pass Anything.” “Congress has passed a bill to fund a study…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 10-11-2023

Who’da thunk it? Most of the world knew what would happen when the United States released six billion dollars for the release of five people held by a terrorist country. The heading back in August read like this. “Biden Agrees To Pay $6 Billion Ransom to Iran For Five U.S. Hostages.” The funds were frozen…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 10-4-2023

Want to get rich? Get elected! While listening to a radio talk show, last week, the conversation centered around former First Lady Michelle Obama receiving a couple hundred-thousand dollars for making a one hour long speech somewhere over in Europe. So I went to the Internet to find if she had a large fortune and…

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Off the Publisher’s Desk 9-27-23

How are you doing? We are all aware of increasing cost of living every time we go shopping or stop at the gas station. I am happy to report that gasoline dropped twenty cents locally, but other costs keep creeping upward. I am using a column written by Robert Romano reflecting how our wages are…

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Off the Editor’s Desk – 9-20-23

A few things we need to discuss! I was listening to an expert on electric vehicles on my car radio early Monday morning, he was comparing electric to gas powered cars. I did not get his name, but, he noted that with all the drawbacks of electric vehicles at this time, it will be some…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 9-13-2023

He told me that gas prices were going up and they did! Early last week I was told that I should fill my car up with gasoline because the price of a gallon of fuel is set to rise by up to seventy cents. This information came from a reliable source (some one that operates…

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Off the Editor’s Desk – 9-6-2023

Still drugs on our streets! We are still facing drugs on our streets and deaths from those illegal drugs that have caused the deaths of some 9,512 Wisconsin citizens to overdoses in a seven-year period from2014-2021. It seems like every week that I look at a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 8-30-2023

Who won the debate I could not watch the First Republican Debate last week as we lost the Fox News channel when our local cable company got out of the cable television business. So I have to rely on reports from other television network accounts of the debate and what I could pick up from…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 8-23-23

Mass Transit! I would believe that all of us that have traveled on the Interstate Highway system here in Wisconsin and into Minnesota have experienced some delay in our travel because of several things, mostly road construction. Two weeks ago on Sunday we traveled to Stoughton, Wisconsin, which is about fifteen miles southeast of Madison…

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