Wisconsin legislators have proposed carving out broad environmental exemptions for a proposed Foxconn factory. An incentives bill currently working its way through the legislature would ...

Kathleen Vinehout

“For an adult with a family who has to pay for food, clothing, and a place to live, and be able to pay for a ...

There was some consternation in progressive circles this year since it appeared that there would only be a kickoff event for Fighting Bob Fest, but ...

Neil Young, Hitchhiker

In August, 1976 Neil Young went into the studio to record some of the new songs he was working on. Many of them would become ...

Ideological groups push de-licensing plan By Senator Kathleen Vinehout “This bill does not allow for public debate...is the public even aware? You’re not allowing the ...

THIS IS AN URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT REGARDING FRAC SAND & MINING. WE NEED A LOT OF PHONE CALLS NOW. For some time, we have been ...

Ben Carson

by Alec MacGillis ProPublica, Aug. 22, 2017, 8 a.m. In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of housing and urban development in the ...

“ Friends in the Wisconsin Legislature, we beg you: Sign that bad deal with Foxconn,” recently wrote the Chicago Sun Times editorial board. “It’s the ...

Sarah Botham, a marketing director with Botham Vineyards, always saw gift baskets as a problematic gift — oddly shaped, inefficient and hard to send. While ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2017 Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds Condemns President Trump For Again Blaming “Both Sides” For Violence In ...

Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Farhana Khera, Executive Director of Muslim Advocates, regarding Trump’s latest comments on the white supremacist violence ...

The shiny object in front of lawmakers’ eyes when talking about the Foxconn proposal is the potential of new jobs. “13,000 direct jobs! Another 22,000 ...

Bruce Schneier

CTO, IBM Resilient [email protected] https://www.schneier.com A free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security: computer and otherwise. For back issues, or to ...

By Senator Kathleen Vinehout “I lost my granddaughter to heroin addiction,” Anita told me. “We’ve lost so many people,” Tena added. Recently, former Marine Tena ...

This in from The Hill. The Justice Department is embroiled in a fight with Dreamhost (a West Coast large web hosting provider) over the private ...

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Steve Hanson 11/20 - 2:08pm
As you may know, a group of Dunn County residents has been working for some time on what has been called the Local News Project. Their intention is to plug ...
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Steve Hanson 11/19 - 4:34pm
Eye On Dunn County is proud to be sponsoring scholarships for a Citizen Journalism Course at UW-Stout. The course is open to the public and is designed to equip local ...
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At the moment I am still on Twitter, but to escape the Musky smell I have opened a Bluesky account for Eye On Dunn County. Unfortunately the social media tools ...

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