Meg's Blog
Washington County Board Passes Election Integrity Package
Far-left Democrat Governor Tony (Veto) Evers doesn't support election integrity in Wisconsin, so we must await (and work towards) the election of a Republican governor to sign the legislature's multiple election integrity bills into law that have been passed by Assembly and Senate Republicans in multiple sessions. In t...
May 17, 2024
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Don't Minnesota my Wisconsin!
In 2006, my husband and I relocated our family to beautiful Central Wisconsin from the Twin Cities. We talked of and dreamt about leaving Minnesota for a long time when the opportunity presented itself. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time here and work very hard to help pursue, preserve and promote our conservative val...
May 09, 2024
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Can't Believe Your Lying Empty Wallets?
This is Biden's America. Far-left Democrat policies are destroying Americans and this country. Can't understand why your wallet is empty? Look no further than gas prices under the last 4 presidents. A citizenry who cannot afford to live due to the oppressive and ruinous policies of the political party in power is not a...
May 07, 2024
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CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths
In an exclusive report by the Epoch Times, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths. When will those who experienced injuries,...
May 01, 2024
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Baldwinomics is Failing
Can't believe your lying empty wallet? Unable to afford gas, groceries and excessive taxes? Senator Tammy Baldwin is in lockstep with Joe Biden's wars on our economy, national security and American way of life. A recent Morning Consult poll found voters are highly dissatisfied with the Bidenomics Tammy Baldwin voted fo...
Apr 30, 2024
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Conley Commentary
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Friday on Faith; The Cathedrals
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - If I were to ever visit France, I would want to tour the great cathedrals there. I've seen pictures of the Cathedral of St. Marie on the Island of Corsica. Built in the 1490s, it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the fisherman who headed out to sea hoping that God would provide them a catc...
May 17, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - About those wildfires...
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Early this week there was a thick haze over Central Wisconsin. For the second year in a row our air quality will be impacted by wildfires in Canada. We were told that the air we were breathing was unhealthy and people with asthma should stay indoors. I think the wildfires tell us something im...
May 16, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - The Campaign Commercial That Will Never Be Made
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Tammy Baldwin's campaign is airing a television commercial that's supposed to tug at your heartstrings. In it, Brook McKearn talks about the drug overdose death of her son Nick. She says that Senator Tammy Baldwin authored a bill to stop fentanyl from coming into the country. Mrs. McKearn sa...
May 15, 2024
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Ballot Harvesting Receptacles
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - At least it was a small group of woefully uninformed citizens. About a dozen held a rally outside of Wausau City Hall where the city's absentee ballot drop box used to be. It stayed there, bolted to the concrete but padlocked, for more than a year after the state Supreme Court ruled it was il...
May 14, 2024
CONLEY COMMENTARY - What must the Jewish students think?
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - There are about 4,000 Jewish students who attend UW-Madison. Surely they are puzzled by the events of last Friday. Their classmates who sided with murderers, beheaders, hostage takers and rapists reached a negotiated settlement with school administrators. The demonstrators' biggest achieveme...
May 13, 2024
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Tom King's Blog
It's Been a Great Ride
As a kid in the 1960s-early 70's listening to WRIG & WIFC and pestering the DJs with requests and telling them that they were playing the wrong songs, I really couldnt have envisioned working in that business for nearly 40 years and spending many of those years working at those stations. I can't remember when I dec...
Dec 30, 2022
A Old-Fashioned Southern Christmas
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago.... The only "new" Christmas album I could find from 1972 was this one from "The Man In Black". He and his family, touring band and several notable guests deliver an album of mostly original holiday material along with old standbyes "Jingle...
Dec 22, 2022
The Album That Wasn't Supposed To Happen
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... Maybe the oddest thing about the hit double LP "Made In Japan" from the band Deep Purple is the fact that they didnt even want to record it and then when it was recorded didn't really care if it got released. Many fans had recorded bootleg tapes of t...
Dec 21, 2022
Soulful Shuffling
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... This is one of those LPs that nobody in Central Wisconsin heard at the time. No one was really playing jazz records here. Even ones as funky as this. You may not know the name Bernard "Pretty" Purdie but I guarantee you have heard him play. He was Ar...
Dec 20, 2022
Better Material Needed
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... The New Riders of The Purple Sage were prolific if nothing else. "Gypsy Cowboy" was the second Lp of the year and their 3rd in 15 months. As in most cases of that much material being needed, some is weaker than most. The best tracks on the Lp are a s...
Dec 19, 2022
WSAU Newsroom Blog
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for May 14th
Wausau's Finance Committee and City Council will both discuss a proposal to send members of the city's police department to Milwaukee to help secure the 2024 Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum. According to the proposal, Wausau would be reimbursed by the city of Milwaukee for all salary and travel expenses....
May 14, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for May 1st
A new $1.1 million facelift for the Stevens Point Brewery's taproom and gift shop will be unveiled on Wednesday. The Brewery will team up with designers and builders for the project to host a ribbon cutting at 10 AM followed by tours of the new addition. The project has been in the works since last October. To keep the...
May 01, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for April 23rd
The new Wausau City Council will meet on Tuesday to consider final approval for fencing around the Police Department parking lot. The measure would protect officers when they aren't prepared for confrontation. Patrol Lieutenant Luis Lopes Serrao previously told members of the Finance Committee that officers have been v...
Apr 23, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for April 16th
New city leaders will be installed Tuesday night. That includes Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids, who will swear in new Mayors and some new faces on their City Councils. In Wausau, Doug Diny will take the Mayor's gavel from Katie Rosenberg, who has held the post for the last four years. The City Council will welcome a pair ...
Apr 16, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for April 8th
The Wausau School Board will hear an update regarding proposed staff reductions to help cover a $2.5 million budget shortfall for the coming academic year. The proposal was brought forward in March, calling for the elimination of roughly 26 full-time equivalency positions, saving about $2.3 million. That would still le...
Apr 08, 2024
The Midwestern Conservative
Gilman, Sparta and Cadott take top archery honors
(DNR) MADISON, Wis. - Student archers from 51 public, private and home schools competed virtually in the state's National Archery in the Schools Progr...
Apr 04, 2022
President Trump's first social media posting
It took less than an hour for President Trump to send out his first message on social media following his swearing in. Trump posted the following message on Facebook: Greg Belfrage @belfrageshow is the veteran morning show host on KELO Newstalk 1320/107.9 in Sioux Falls, SD. Greg can be contacted at greg.belfrage@mwcra...
Jan 20, 2017
Poll: Obamacare replace must happen with repeal
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say any repeal of Obamacare should include an immediate replacement plan. The Morning Consult/Politico poll says voters support the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but they want another plan at the ready. Replacing Obamacare was listed by a plurality of voters as the top job facing Pre...
Jan 10, 2017
How The Far Right Fell in Love With Assange
Much has been written about “tribal politics” since the November 8 election. Simply put, loyalty to the tribe is put above all else. In a piece for the Washington Post, Michael Gerson uses the acceptance of criminal Julian Assange by leading conservative figures to maximum effect in explaining tribal politi...
Jan 06, 2017
What Will Trump "Russian Reset" Look Like
A U.S. intelligence community report declassified Friday squarely blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for “influence campaign” aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping President-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The report concludes that it was Putin himself who ordered the campa...
Jan 06, 2017