Opinion
After a two-year hiatus, Vennelag members were thrilled to see hundreds of guests gathering to enjoy our Kaffe Stue (coffee room). There were many satisfying feelings, some reminiscent of old childhood days.
This year’s streamlined menu offered new options that will become a mainstay. The cold...
Life is like candy. Sometimes it’s sweet. Sometimes it’s sour. Last September, we had just opened our candy store, the Sugar Troll in Mount Horeb, and then there was a spike in COVID cases. Times were very sour. Thanks to a $50 million investment from the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan...
Dear editor,
We will cast two enthusiastic votes for Anna Halverson for the 80th Assembly District. Anna shares our passion for a fair and just Wisconsin.
As of this writing, 23,768-gun deaths have torn communities and families apart in 2022. There have been 338 mass shootings this year alone. Anna...
For anyone considering voting for Republicans in the midterm election I ask you to consider the latest evidence of who they really are. All 208 Republicans in the house voted against an amendment to “require top national security agencies to report on and combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi...
As a longtime Verona resident and City Alder, I am voting for Anna Halverson for State Assembly and urge voters to join me! I have known Anna for many years as a Moms Demand Action Leader, a mom, and as a friend, and she is best qualified to be our next Assembly representative.
Anna is the only...
A very good friend of mine, Anna Halverson is running for Assembly in our area. Anna is a Democrat and she is an effective advocate for change, for women’s rights, for people with disabilities, for supporting and building community, for safe gun laws, and for a better Wisconsin where we all can...
It was so hot in Raleigh, North Carolina last week that it seemed like you could hear the sun. It was like a movie in which the sun was a character, and I was talking about it, only to pause mid-sentence and gasp: “He’s standing right behind me, isn’t he?!” We were visiting my little sister, who...
As a grandfather and great grandfather I am more and more concerned about the future in store for kids in our country. Up to 70 percent of people aged 16-34 are hostile to capitalism and want a socialist government, despite communism having killed over 100 million people. Where do our kids learn to...
Last month I had the good fortune to visit Croatia for ten days - my first time in the Balkans.
The region has been crisscrossed by empires and armies for millennia, and is still on the mend from the most recent wars in the 1990s, following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Croatia emerged...
I have noticed that there is increasingly a lot of misinformation being spread by certain candidates for political office concerning US energy production. Having spent 40+ years in the industry I would like to help clarify the state of the US energy industry for those who want to deal in facts....