Hey, Pardner: Midwest Renamed Frontier Is OK With Me
Maybe we'll get flapjacks instead of chocolate cookies, too.
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Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
Milwaukee skyline
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Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
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Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
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Wisconsin wind farm, east of Waupun
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
Skylight illumination in Milwaukee City Hall
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
What water, wetland protection is all about
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
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3 comments:
Yeah, it really hasn't been Midwest for awhile now anyhow.
Rowen: Smile when you say that, Stranger.
They could have gone with Frontier Express, or The Fast Stagecoach.
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