WNA Member Content

Time to say goodbye to Dad

It’s been a week since I watched Dad take his last breath. I selfishly tried to keep him with us a little longer but my life-saving attempts fell short.

capitol report, wispolitics

Fifty-two ‘gap-filing’ exemptions the latest in biofuels debate

The EPA Small Refinery Exemptions update in mid-June shows the agency was considering 52 exemption petitions for Renewable Fuel Standard compliance in a big chunk of the 2010s — actions that could hurt a Wisconsin ethanol industry just beginning to come back from a pandemic-induced hit.

Peter Kwong

Water is free, so why do people pay for it?

In a sense, water is free and should be free, right? So, what’s with these bottled waters all of a sudden? That folks would pay good money for something that is free? And it has developed to be a trend and fashionable.

False conspiracies swirl as Wisconsin contact tracers battle coronavirus

Conspiracy theories about contact tracing have percolated on social media since early May, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidelines on how state health authorities should implement this “core disease control measure” to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed at least 130,000 Americans — including about 800 Wisconsinites, according to government estimates.

Results available for summer activities poll

Readers visiting WNA member websites and social platforms from June 24 to July 6 were asked which canceled summer activities they would miss most in 2020. Here are the results.

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