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Looking past ceremony: Military Appreciation Month and the case for strengthened veteran health in northern Wisconsin
Communities across Northern Wisconsin are closely tied to military service — with countless residents and families shaped by generations of enlistment, deployment, and return. That connection takes center stage each May during the commemoration of the National Military Appreciation Month — an annual tribute that intends not only to highlight …
Libertarians condemn petition circulator ban
To the Editor: The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin strongly opposes the recent federal court decision allowing Wisconsin’s out-of-state petition circulator ban to remain in place. Measures like this do not strengthen democracy, they weaken voter choice and make it harder for grassroots candidates, independent candidates, and third parties to compete …
River News: Our View
There are moments when local governments reveal whether they actually believe the policies and principles they themselves adopted, or whether those principles are merely performative words for public consumption, to be tucked away and forgotten the moment political pressure arrives.
FDA has spoken on the abortion pill. Case closed.
The Supreme Court has just restored a woman’s ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the …
Data center freak-out
Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual …
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Volunteers credited for successful year in free tax assistance
To the Editor: I would like to thank all the volunteers, sites, and site personnel that helped make this tax season a success. We completed 1,289 tax returns, up from 1,144 last year. We saved our clients $193,350.00 in tax prep fees and got them $1,499,589.00 back in refunds, up …
The Ballroom amounts to taxpayer abuse
Some years ago, I was president of an organization called the Association of Opinion Journalists. Every year we would run a convention in a different city and end it with a celebration in the hotel’s ballroom space. Our speaker on that closing night was usually some well-known political opinionator.
Dead duck: Patel files a lulu of a lawsuit
For Americans who have watched FBI Director Kash Patel slosh beer with the U.S. Olympic hockey team, proclaim that the FBI had Charlie Kirk’s murderer in custody only to have to say “Never mind,” and stand glassy-eyed at press conferences looking somewhere between an unhappy participant in a police line-up …
River News: Our View
It’s hard to miss the irony. For years, much of the corporate press has seen itself as the nation’s cool-headed referee, the adult in the room who separates truth from fiction, who explains to us the settled science of the experts and why those who disagree with government narratives are, …
Congressional approval of mining in Boundary Waters causes concern
To the Editor: On April 16, the Republican led Senate decided that what lies below the Boundary Waters Canoe Area watershed in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest is more important than the over 150,000 people who visit there each year and the area residents who benefit from the millions of dollars …
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Dinner is served: will Trump be pressed?
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday is the hottest ticket in town, but a tempest is brewing among journalists on Donald J. Trump’s presence at the posh gathering. This is a moment in the tales of our embattled city. It will be Trump’s first time at the dinner, a chance …
Willfully blind: American universities continue to squirm under Stefanik’s anti-semitism spotlight
Congressional hearings aren’t known for generating Must-See TV, so the rare exceptions tend to be notable. Attorney Joseph Welch’s takedown of the demagogic Senator from Wisconsin during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings — “At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?” — became iconic.
‘War and climate change’
To the Editor: As of this writing there are multiple wars in the world. Along with human tragedy and physical destruction we also experience the degradation of our natural environment. Cities, industries, and infrastructure are destroyed. There is an extraordinary amount of economic wastefulness.
‘Tax the rich?’
To the Editor: In your April 14 edition, John Stossel contributing under the headline “Tax the Rich?” on his interview with Steve Forbes refers to a one-time California wealth tax (on the excess over $1 billion of wealth as of Jan. 1, 2026 of each of the State’s approximately 200 …
Reader displeased with newspaper’s Sunshine grades for Trump, Tiffany
To the Editor: It seemed it had to be an April Fool’s joke, but no. The River News actually gave Donald Trump and Tom Tiffany A plus for their performance in office. Let’s just address President Trump’s performance.
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