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Marquette, the Rancher and Dick Contino
Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday, January 10, 2014. http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/marquette-the-rancher-and-dick-contino-b99180466z1-239523371.html Spend enough time around universities and the beginnings of semesters bring visitors that demand to be let in. And so, with Marquette University’s spring semester beginning on … Continue reading
The Peril Above Genoa
Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Karl Garson, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Nature, Published, Wetlands, Wisconsin
Tagged Bakken Formation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific, Deepwater Horizon, Genoa Wisconsin, Karl Garson, oil spills, oil trains, Tar Sands, Upper Mississippi
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The Peril Above Genoa
Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Karl Garson, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Nature, Published, Wetlands, Wisconsin
Tagged Bakken Formation, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific, Deepwater Horizon, Genoa Wisconsin, Karl Garson, oil spills, oil trains, Tar Sands, Upper Mississippi
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Wisconsin’s February and the 2013 Mining Bill
To combat the symptoms of cabin fever that came packaged with this Wisconsin February I got out of the farmhouse and into the woods, an activity dating back to my childhood. My father was its chief proponent. We then lived … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Nature, Published, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wisconsin lakes, Wisconsin rivers
Tagged Cedar Grove Wisconsin, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, environment, Gogebic taconite mine, Karl Garson, Milwaukee county Parks, Mining Bill, nature, Penokee Range, Scott Walker
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The Groundhog Poet, Frederick Wadleigh West
Frederick Wadleigh West, the Groundhog Poet With Groundhog Day upon us once again it seems appropriate to offer a few words about Frederick Wadleigh West, the Groundhog Poet. West was born on February 2, 1867 in Darien, Connecticut. His father, … Continue reading
Posted in humor, Karl Garson, Nature, Published, Uncategorized
Tagged Darien Connecticut, Groundhog Day, Karl Garson, Marmota Monax, nature, outdoors, poetry
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Stop the Tears for Newtown
Published in The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in the on-line edition on January 8, 2013 and in the print edition on Wednesday, January 9, 2013. A link to the on-line essay is provided at the end of the text. The horror … Continue reading
Race and the race for the White House
Published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, under “Racism and the race: It seems that some can’t accept a black president.” I finished reading Alistair Cooke’s “The American Home Front: 1941-1942” during a recent flight to San … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Presidential Campaign, civil rights movement, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Published, Social Justice, Wisconsin
Tagged 2012 presidential election, Alistair Cooke, Dave Chappelle, John Sununu, Karl Garson, President Obama, racism, Sarah Palin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tommy Thompson
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Graduates Special? We Never Were.
Published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday, July 27, 2012 http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/graduates-special-we-never-were-7468g3f-163923646.html One summer afternoon in the ‘80’s my friend Jim said, “Our high school years were the last good years of our lives.” Jim and I were fending off desert … Continue reading
Cancer and the growth of Wisconsin’s economy
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Saturday, February 4, 2012, under the headline, “Don’t ignore the malignancies of economic growth.” A link to the essay is provided below. Cancer and economies depend on growth. The dominant belief is that … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Published, Wisconsin
Tagged ethanol production, frac sand, job creation, Karl Garson, taconite mining
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The Winter Solstice is the Reason for the Season
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Saturday, December 10, 2011 Christ in Christmas fits within Christian systems of belief, not those held by two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t believe the Jesus story. Nevertheless, during the time … Continue reading
Posted in Karl Garson, Nature, Published, Social Justice
Tagged Christmas, Karl Garson, Vietnam War, Winter Solstice
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Karl Garson / Postcards from America 