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Owen Robinson: Homeowners blockaded in Vilas County

After years of wrangling through a convoluted mess of contracts, bad record keeping, broken promises, state, local, federal, and tribal laws, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has decided to blockade dozens of non-tribal families in the dead of winter. In a dramatic escalation, tribal officials are demanding $20 million in order to lift the blockade.

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Dave Zweifel: The breathtaking hypocrisy of Robin Vos

While Vos doesn’t think the state — sitting on a $7 billion surplus — needs to assist low-income kids who are qualified to go to college but can’t afford it, he has hardly blinked an eye wasting $2 million — and still counting — on disgraced former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s much ridiculed probe of a “stolen election.”

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Owen Robinson: Homeowners blockaded in Vilas County

After years of wrangling through a convoluted mess of contracts, bad record keeping, broken promises, state, local, federal, and tribal laws, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has decided to blockade dozens of non-tribal families in the dead of winter. In a dramatic escalation, tribal officials are demanding $20 million in order to lift the blockade.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: The breathtaking hypocrisy of Robin Vos

While Vos doesn’t think the state — sitting on a $7 billion surplus — needs to assist low-income kids who are qualified to go to college but can’t afford it, he has hardly blinked an eye wasting $2 million — and still counting — on disgraced former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s much ridiculed probe of a “stolen election.”

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