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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Rawson isn&#39;t representing Marcellon Township]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=286012</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Helen Rawson still doesn&#39;t get it. Yes, she says in her letter to the Daily Register that she must represent all the citizens of Marcellon Township. Yes, that is the way this government works. She should listen to her constituents and represent their opinions. The majority of the voting population of this township has informed this board member that they do not want another strip mine by signing a petition against it. How ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Daily Register wrong to report on TV show case]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=286013</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Daily Register sunk to a new low by highlighting a poorly made television show that puts focus on some troubling times in a local woman&#39;s life. To put this woman back into the public spotlight over some personal issues was uncalled for. Then to even include in the article that she was not available for comment seemed demeaning and a total lack of journalistic integrity. Why did this story need to be retold ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Badger Conference arts show going on]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=286014</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When we hear Badger Conference, we think basketball and football. Did you know the same schools promote the visual arts, with each one of them taking a turn at hosting an annual art show? It is Portage&#39;s turn this year, and the show is being held at the Portage Center for the Arts gallery now. The opening reception was May 2, and the show will end May 31 with a closing reception.The gallery ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ROBERTSES COLUMN: Districts deny democracy]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=286016</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When Cokie interviewed President Bush a few weeks ago, the talk turned to the issue of immigration. The president has a long history of reaching out to Hispanics and advocating a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, and he&#39;s deeply frustrated that his proposals have died on Capitol Hill.Too many congressional districts, he said, are drawn to guarantee safe seats for one party or the other. So for many lawmakers, their only real threat ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Steve and Cokie Roberts]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Sprinkler ordinance far from anti-business]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285831</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The recent article about Portage&#39;s fire sprinkler ordinance amazed me that &#34;responsible legislators&#34; don&#39;t get it. Fires happen, and a community can be adversely affected. A business having a fire creates immediate stress on that day&#39;s business and on the profit margins of that company. A business can also experience a fire with losses of a building, products, records, jobs and may even sustain injuries or lost lives as well. More than 50 percent ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Rio schools being compensated in own way]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285832</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ After reading Jen McCoy&#39;s &#34;Freedom From Religion leader frustrated by Rio&#34; article, something occurred to me. As noted in the article, the Wisconsin Constitution states, &#34;Nothing in this constitution shall prohibit the legislature from authorizing, by law, the use of public school buildings by civic, religious or charitable organizations during non-school hours upon payment by the organization to the school district of reasonable compensation for such use.&#34;Who, then, decides what &#34;reasonable compensation&#34; is? ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Dumpster wasn&#39;t for public use]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285833</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Over a recent weekend, a Dumpster was placed for the purpose of an estate auction on a major county road. How sad when we arrived back to clean up on Sunday to find that somebody took it upon themselves to use for their own personal use to fill it over halfway with their own &quot;remodel&quot; garbage. It is amazing how inconsiderate some people can be. We felt it our duty to speak up ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[REAGAN COLUMN: Looking at the other Obama]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285834</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Here we go again. After being subjected to eight years of the collegial presidency of Bill and Hillary, when we were told that when we got Bill we got Hillary as a bonus, it looks as if we are facing another twofer: Barack and Michelle.Effete liberal Democrats are all but canonizing Barack Obama, who they see as one of their own &#8212; cool, detached, impressively intellectual &#8212; all in all what Pat Buchanan described ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HENTOFF COLUMN: Sanitizing the death penalty]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285620</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court &#8212; by a walloping 7-to-2 majority in Baze v. Reese &#8212; declared constitutional Kentucky&#39;s method of death penalty by lethal injection &#8212; a combination of three toxic chemicals used as a method of execution in 35 states.As Justice John Paul Stevens noted disquietedly, one of the three terminating chemicals paralyzes the unsedated prisoner, who is conscious but unable to move, breathe or utter his last cry. <br ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Nat Hentoff]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Support for the Monthly Party Club in Rio]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285621</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I&#39;m writing in support of Johanna Wynn and The Monthly Party Club. Incidentally, I also believe in separation of church and state. How does that work out? I&#39;ll explain it. Madison-based Freedom From Religion Group, listen closely:The Rio school district has allowed nonprofit groups to share the benefits of its school building free of charge, according to the Daily Register. The Monthly Party Club, regardless of its theme and/or ideas, is a nonprofit organization. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Fundraiser remarkably misses point]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285622</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s great that the Portage community supports the American Cancer Society&#39;s Relay for Life efforts by being involved in fundraising for the important purpose of cancer research. Cancer research is a very worthy cause and is the entire basis of what the American Cancer Society does through its programs and advocacy work. It is absolutely astonishing, however, that the Portage community misses the point of helping for cancer research by holding a fundraiser ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MURTAGH COLUMN: The horse is already gone ...]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285449</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Everyone, except the profit-takers, are suffering from gas pains these days. John Q. Public is adding several more words to his daily plaint as to how he should spend his last few dollars: something to eat, for heat or for the refill of prescribed pills that he will cut into two to make them last longer? After checking the price of gasoline at the corner stations, he will now wonder if the trip is ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Blanche Murtagh]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Keep standing up to Freedom From Religion]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285450</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I read the article &#34;Freedom From Religion leader frustrated with Rio.&#34; I read the online copies of the correspondence between the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Rio Community School District. As a result I have to publicly praise Mark McGuire, RCSD administrator, and Alice Marquardt, president of the Board of Education, for frustrating Laurie Gaylor of FFRF and her attempts of coercion.&nbsp;&nbsp; While Gaylor says that the district is in violation of Article ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Gale Singers weekend concert was a hit]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285451</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last Sunday afternoon, the auditorium at the Portage Center for the Arts held a great crowd of music lovers, and once again, the Gale Singers did not disappoint our expectations and even exceeded them.What a great concert. Under direction of Mary Reiche of Montello, the choir presented a program of love songs, old favorites, a few gospel renditions ending with a heart-stirring patriotic medley, narrated by Portage resident Doug Peters, former WPDR/WDDC radio celebrity.<br ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Democrats have no clue on gasoline prices]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285452</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I just saw Bill O&#39;Reilly&#39;s interview with Hilary Clinton concerning gas prices. I&#39;ve also seen some pieces on Barack Obama concerning the same subject. What a flipping joke. How stupid do they think we all are? They want to sock it to the oil companies. Let&#39;s get real, shall we? They won&#39;t be able to do it because the Uniform Taxation Clauses of the federal and all 50 state constitutions forbid that kind of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Story time at library was a success all year]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285264</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s time to say &#34;thank you&#34; to the many children and their families who attended Preschool Story Time at the Portage Public Library all year long. As part of that thank-you, we once again held our end-of-the-year &#34;Spring Fever&#34; party, which brought together more than 100 children and their families to celebrate a year of story time fun and the coming of spring.This year, children at our party had the opportunity to learn ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-07T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Emily Miller&#39;s story worth telling]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285265</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Today, on the front page of the Portage Daily Register, I read the story of Emily Miller, a 9-year-old girl who is battling the third cancer that has attacked her little body. My first thoughts, of course, were for Emily and her family, and I would like to extend my best wishes and prayers to them. Secondly, I thought, &#34;How wonderful of the Register to place this little girl&#39;s plight for a bone ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-07T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Rio schools should stand up to foundation]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285266</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I am writing this to encourage the families and faculty of the Rio School District: Don&#39;t be intimidated by the &#34;Freedom From Religion Foundation.&#34; They are a collaboration of immoral, unhappy people (pray for them) with nothing better to do than waste the courts&#39; time with frivolous nonsense based on their own twisted interpretation of the Constitution. The plain truth is they will not be happy until they&#39;ve made everyone else more miserable than ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-07T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BROMLEY COLUMN: Hold for the president ...]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285089</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I have grave concerns about the future of my local Kiwanis Club.Not because there&#39;s a scandal or anything like that. The club isn&#39;t funneling &#34;happy bucks&#34; into a slush fund for hiring dancing girls. In fact, the board of directors is so tight with its treasury that one year volunteers delivering bananas to a local assisted living facility were grilled for overspending &#8212; to the tune of about 4 bucks.Yet I&#39;m worried about ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By Ben Bromley]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Save the Animals Group event was a success]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285090</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Central Wisconsin Save the Animals Group recently held an informational public meeting at the library. We&#39;d like to thank everyone who came, especially those people who drove from as far away as Illinois, to hear our guest speakers on the topics of the costs of owning pets, especially the long-term consequences, and what happens when an abuse/neglect call is taken by local law enforcement.&nbsp;Of course, we must extend a special &#34;thank you&#34; to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Many helped out in wake of tornadoes]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285091</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The April 25 tornado in the Wyocena area showed the best of a large group of people.&nbsp; Thanks go out to the Storm Spotters, local fire and emergency ambulance providers, county and local law enforcement, County Emergency Management, Columbia County Highway Department workers, and utility providers. Our local fire and ambulance people are all volunteers, and many thanks go out to them. Knowing they are trained and out at times like this is ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG: Make sure you honor teachers this week]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion//index.php?ntid=285092</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. This is an ideal time to recognize and thank teachers for their daily accomplishments in making sure that Wisconsin&#39;s schools are among the best in the nation.Portage educators invest all of themselves in their work each day and our state&#39;s top test scores and high graduation rates are proof of their dedication. I encourage you to stop by your local school so you can see firsthand how ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Portage Daily Register]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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