CONLEY COMMENTARY - Friday on Faith; God Loved Us First
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I remember watching one of those television psychologists years ago - someone like Dr. Phil or Sally Jesse Raphael - who said something that rang true about human relationships. Whoever cares the least has all the power in a relationship. In a romantic situation, the person who is head-over-h...
Apr 12, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Who are the insurrectionists?
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Remind me again who the insurrectionists are. This received very little news coverage, but two days ago protesters took over a part of the U.S. Capitol. They shut down the Senate dining hall, protesting U.S. support for Israel in their war with Hamas. This begs some obvious questions. How did...
Apr 11, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - A bus ticket home
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Why is Wausau seeing a surge in homelessness? The reason is obvious. You can't live outdoors here in January. You'll freeze to death. In April or May, the weather turns mild. It's still no cakewalk to live under the bridge, but it's do-able. If you believe, as I do, that it is beneath human d...
Apr 10, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Do The Right Thing, Gavel In and Gavel Out
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Tonight the Wausau City Council holds its only lame-duck session. Voters have already picked a new mayor and have chosen some new council members. They have not yet taken their seats. The right thing for the council to do tonight is this: Take no official action. Gavel in and gavel out. Every...
Apr 09, 2024
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Men in women's sports
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Watch the video. Payton McNabb was a varsity high school volleyball player from North Carolina. Her school was playing against another team that has a trans player on it - a biological male playing against females. He goes to spike the ball, which hit Payton squarely in the head. She crumbled...
Apr 08, 2024
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Friday on Faith; The Other Easter Story
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I hope you had a blessed Easter. All four of the gospels tell the story of Christ's resurrection, but each has different details. There is one of the Easter stories that you almost never hear in church on Easter Sunday. It is the darkest and the most ambiguous. Yet it's the one that I best-id...
Apr 05, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Beware of revaluation
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - One of the first things on mayor-elect Doug Diny's to-do list should be to shore up relations with developers in Wausau. It's an area where the city hasn't had a lot of success lately. Recall that S.C. Swiderski pulled out of a retail and apartment project on the riverfront. Higher building ...
Apr 04, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - The end of an era in Wausau mayoral politics
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - The message from Wausau voters appears to be this: the city's finances, and to-the-moon debt are more important than weed-eating goats and the phony issue of inclusiveness. Katie Rosenberg got to the very bottom of the voters' pockets, and when she did she was voted out of office. Whether or...
Apr 03, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Joe Lieberman
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman died last week. I interviewed and reported on him many times when I lived in the northeast. He was one of the nicest, most-glib politicians I've ever met. Senator Joe was a liberal, which means he and I disagreed on almost everything in the political u...
Apr 02, 2024
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Is She In Trouble?
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - My colleague Meg Ellefson has shared that she is a regular Wheel of Fortune viewer. I'm sure for Meg, it's been hard to watch lately. Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg's campaign last week began airing four commercials in each half-hour show. That's a saturation strategy. That begs the question, i...
Apr 01, 2024
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