While it’s hard to measure, the apparent success of the vending machines in the Eau Claire County Jail lobby suggests the initiative is workin…
We’ve had a few days to digest the massive contract Shohei Ohtani received from the Los Angeles Dodgers. We’re concerned for what it means in …
Not every story delivered by the Associated Press is of particular interest locally. That shouldn’t be a surprise — not everyone is interested…
Our recent story about an area farmer studying the potential for industrial hemp has more implications than what people might realize at a gla…
I want to take a couple minutes to talk about some readers’ concerns about the “Memories of a Former Kid” cartoon that ran a couple weeks back.
For Americans under 50, inflation is little more than a theoretical concept. But for those of us born in the late 1950s and 1960s, the inflati…
It has been a little while since I’ve done one of these. Most of the time we use this space for some of the columnists our readers tell us the…
Sometimes, bad days are a blessing in disguise, but you don’t know it at the time.
That’s what Big Ag and its loyal boosters at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) appear to be doing to make sure their new project, Sustainab…
If the third time is a charm, Michael Happ might finally make an impression on federal lawmakers and administrators with his fact-filled, 24-p…
When it comes to games, I am not a good player. I lose more times than I win, and I can’t remember the last time I won.
My New Year’s resolution one year was to have one thought per day. After the first week, I ran out of thoughts.
When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop–this one from a dairy cow to a human–the news seemed like…
Even when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finds enough baling wire to lash together the votes needed to pass the split, almost six-months la…
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The first (and second) rules of Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club” are the same: “You do NOT talk about Fight Club.”
Twenty hours before his death, Jim Alf received a knock on his senior care facility door.
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The Midwest’s most well-known marathon, Grandma’s, takes place each June in Duluth, Minnesota. Closer to home, the Eau Claire Marathon is on A…
A few years ago, I sat down at the Joynt on Water Street and within five minutes a woman on the stool beside me confessed to growing up in a c…
It all seemed so simple at the start: run into the big box store, grab a birthday present for my youngest daughter, and then two-time it to my…
In mid-September, just before my father’s death, one of my best friends dating all the way back to when we were 11-year-old boys, Nik Novak, a…
Located in the rolling farmlands of Wisconsin there is a small town called Greenwood. Yes, it’s a bit off the beaten path.
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We thank you for the article by Larry Scheckel about some of his family of bygone days. It was read with keen interest and we read it more tha…
Many of us older people can’t believe the mess our country is in. There is so much division in our society today. And many people are yelling …
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