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Criminal investigation opens into Wisconsin mayor who moved ballot drop box
Disguised in a hard hat, work gloves, and a Department of Public Works jacket, the mayor of a central Wisconsin city this week carted away a ballot drop box outside City Hall that the city clerk had planned to make available to voters, The Washington Post reported. A criminal investigation...
Your letters: Writer asks Rib Mountain official to reconsider vote on new TID district
~Open letter to Allen Opall, Village of Rib Mountain Board president. I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to you to express my heartfelt gratitude for your many years of dedicated service to our community. Your commitment to improving the lives of our residents has not gone unnoticed.
Election deniers’ last stand in Wisconsin
The mayor of Wausau, Wisconsin, made a national media splash this week when he dressed up in a hard hat and carted away his community’s only absentee ballot drop box, outraging local voters, city officials and voting rights advocates statewide. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would see a sitting mayor dressed […]
Your letters: Wausau ballot box brouhaha not all it seems, writer says
Let’s ignore the hyperventilation of “wanna be future mayor” Alder Lisa Rasmussen for just a minute (her call for the Mayor’s “public apology” and her comment that his actions “violate the public trust”) and get to the real story of the Wausau ballot box brouhaha. Let’s review what did happen, what didn’t happen, and what should have happened.
CVA to host reception for new exhibits
WAUSAU – The Center for the Visual Arts will celebrate this week two of its newest exhibits. A public reception and poetry reading from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 27 is an official event during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival, and is free and open to the public. The CVA is at 427 N. Fourth St.
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