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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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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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The River, Here and There
Published in an edited version in the La Crosse Tribune on Friday, February 24, 2012 under the headline “Like life, river tough to control. The entire essay appears here. A link to the La Crosse Tribune’s edited version is provided … Continue reading
Gogebic Taconite and Our Wetlands
Published in the Green Bay Press Gazette under the headline “Gogebic’s iron mine should be examined from all angles.” A link to the commentary is provided below. Count on the debate over the permitting process that would allow Gogebic Taconite … Continue reading
Gogebic Taconite: Their Mine, Our Water
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Sunday, February 18, 2012. A link to the essay appears below. Water. You can’t live with it. You can’t live without it. If water is part of a river, stream or wetland that … Continue reading
The Boy, the Mine and the Earth
Published in the Duluth News Tribune on Sunday, February 12, 2012 with the headline “Flambeau mine gives us a reason to protect the Earth.” A link to the essay appears below. I think of the boy frequently as I … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water, Environment, Nature, Wisconsin
Tagged duluth news tribune, Flambeau mine, Gogebic Taconite, hurley wisconsin, Karl Garson, Penokee Range
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Karl Garson / Postcards from America 