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What Others Say: Proposed drug patent reforms would do more harm than good

Congress is considering a bill that could exacerbate government waste and give American companies’ most valuable trade secrets to China. That’s obviously not lawmakers’ goal. But it’s …

Trump’s hatred for immigrants translates into Spanish

None of the racist taunts of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were lost in translation. They dripped from his lips in English and then were translated into Spanish. Trump appeared in …

SHOOTING STAR

Ellie and Zach Tomaszewski of Eagle River enjoying the night sky with the view of the comet on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 17. —Photo By Katie Tomaszewski

What Others Say: Verizon purchases Frontier

How will that affect customers in Wisconsin? Farewell, Frontier internet and phone service. Last month, Verizon Communications announced plans to buy the, to put it mildly, widely-disliked …

A simple reform to Medicare’s prescription drug program could put billions of dollars back into seniors’ pockets over the next decade. That’d help them better manage their chronic conditions …

JD Vance’s hateful masterclass on immigrants

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who are you calling “fickle?” Repeatedly labeling former President Donald Trump as a man of “fickle leadership” was a go-to line for Walz during the first and only …

UNUSUAL SIGHT

An adult gray fox, a somewhat uncommon species in the North Woods, saunters down a city street on Eagle River’s south side in broad daylight. The species is strikingly different than the red fox …

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns that today’s youth mental health crisis is the “defining public health issue of our time.” He’s right. American adolescents are experiencing …

Expanding Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin would add fewer enrollees relative to other remaining non-expansion states, but deliver a much larger fiscal benefit to state taxpayers. In Wisconsin, the …

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