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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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Off the Editor’s Desk 8-16-2023

One day last week I was looking into several boxes of old pictures we have in our office, some of which are Polaroid pictures taken back in the 1950’s and 60s. I also found an interesting poem about the “One Room Country School.” It was on a print sheet dated 1943 and a hand written…

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Off the Editor’s Desk -09-2023

Grow Wheat! The following is a report in the Capitol Guardian about Ukraine’s wheat exports. “After Russia halted a deal to allow Ukraine to export wheat from certain locations on the Black Sea, and has resumed bombing of Odesa, Ukraine’s ability to export grain is once again being degraded – an outcome entirely predictable from…

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Off the Editor’s Desk 8-2-23

The Supreme Court—your feelings? The United States Supreme Court has been at the front of many news stories recently over their controversial rulings. Over time I had wondered how many of the citizens of our great country have been concerned about the performance of the Supreme Court. Every time it seems that the court makes…

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Off the Editor’s Desk – 7-26-2023

I’m not buying an electric car yet! It’s hot and summer is here in Wisconsin and if you watch anybody that thinks that they are well informed you will hear that the planet is getting warmer and that will raise the sea level, melt the ice, keep polar bears from getting food and change our…

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