Papa Johns of the world don’t get that Obama cares about employee’s health
This election season brought out some of the more bizarre behavior we’ve seen from corporations across the country. Having unlimited
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Doug Hissom writes a weekly environmental column for Baltimore Post-Examiner. He has covered local and state politics in Wisconsin for more than 20 years. Over the course of that time he was publisher, editor, news editor, managing editor and senior writer at the Shepherd Express weekly paper in Milwaukee. He also covered education and environmental issues extensively. He ran the UWM Post in the mid-1980s, winning a Society of Professional Journalists award as best non-daily college newspaper. An avid outdoors person he regularly takes extended paddling trips in the wilderness, preferring the hinterlands of northern Canada and Alaska. After a bet with a bunch of sailors, he paddled across Lake Michigan in a canoe.
Author: Doug Hissom
Bigfoot lives: Animal Planet finds Sasquatch
Bigfoot is big again. Sightings of the big hairy guy are coming in monthly and making national news when they
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Get away to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun
The lights of Cancun glistened off the glass sea as we stood on a wooden pier jutting into the ocean,
Read moreWisconsin: Republican party organizers attempt to prevent citizens from voting
Republican Party organizers under the umbrella of the Romney-Ryan campaign in Wisconsin have been caught holding training sessions for poll
Read moreBarack Obama is the king of the ‘Oil Presidents’
President Barack Obama spent his last campaign and his first term championing clean and renewable energy sources, but when it
Read moreAlaska: North Slope price of admission and survival requires attitude
On the Colville River in Alaska– The chest-heaving dose of adrenaline running though the veins wasn’t even close to subsiding
Read moreDigging up dirt in Northern Alaska: What happens when geologists take over the North Slope
“Our friends say we’re on vacation,” laughs Dolores van der Kolk. The activities of the day prove far from it.
Read moreUPDATE: Bigfoot discovered in Wisconsin and moving to the East Coast?
The sheriff from a small Wisconsin county was investigating a possible Sasquatch (Bigfoot) sighting earlier this month. A scared constituent
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Dino diggers: Searching for dinosaur fossils in Alaska
Fairbanks–It’s over one-ton later and our supplies are ready for take-off from the Fairbanks International Airport. The three of us–including
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How much does the ‘Drill America First crowd’ really know about oil in Alaska?
Coldfoot, Alaska — Traffic backed up behind us on the Dalton Highway as we stopped to let the musk ox
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