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Farmers in diverse states like Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine and Minnesota are researching a new crop: industrial hemp. Many states are changing laws to allow growing of hemp. Wisconsin is slow to get in the game. Hopefully, this is about to change. Lawmakers on the Senate Agriculture,...

Living in the Twin Cities media market makes tracking developments in Madison difficult under normal circumstances. With so much media attention drawn to the natural and man-made national tragedies of the past weeks, one can be excused for not noticing that a 2017-2019 biennial state...

At the Hudson Area Public Library, we're honored to be hosting a special speaker during October's genealogy session (10:30 a.m. on the second Thursday of each month). Nelly Trocmé Hewett, the oldest of four children, was born in northern France in 1927. In the early 1930s her family...

Donald Trump's address to the United Nations on Sept. 19 focused on many political issues that have clear economic implications. Let's consider the economics of these topics in two separate columns in the River Falls Journal. 1."Wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted,...

At the Hudson Area Public Library, we are excited and proud to formally introduce our new iLABS, funded by the Library Foundation's 2016 annual drive campaign. An iLAB is a makerspace: it's a place for people of all ages to come and create, make, tinker, try, develop, share resources...

Each dramatic home rescue during the tragic events of Hurricane Harvey is a reminder of the importance of having a household emergency plan. Easily overlooked in the effort to preserve human life is the importance for businesses to have an emergency plan.

This column has appeared on this page for a long time. Many years ago, this column was written by a man from Colorado Springs, Colo. It was printed in this paper because it was a nationally syndicated column. He is an intelligent, Christian man with a PhD. His columns were answers...