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Marquette, the Rancher and Dick Contino

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Karl Garson

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 →

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Graduates Special? We Never Were.

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Karl Garson

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 →

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