By Mark Hill The upstream industry loves a good dust-up. From crashing oil prices to Saudi over-production, the past two years have tested that tenacity like never before. The scraps have come thick and fast. But where the boom years saw a frenzied battle to see who could out-drill and out-spend rivals, the days of…
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Japan – some interesting facts
Hiroshima returned to what it was economically before the atomic bomb was dropped. Japan prevents the use of mobile phones in trains, restaurants and indoors. For first to sixth primary year Japanese students must learn ethics in dealing with people. Even though one of the richest populations in the world, the Japanese do not have…
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Please help me understand
Dear Reality News Readers, There is an effort in the works by some special interests to amend the Constitution… in order to to solve a problem which we at the State level have helped to create. Please allow me to explain how the states have created this problem… and how they can solve it… without…
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The Osthoff, Wisconsin’s Top Resort and Top Spa
Otto Osthoff, a successful nineteenth century Wisconsin entrepreneur would be proud to see how successful the resort he founded in 1886, in Elkhart Lake, has become. Under the direction of its manager Lola Roeh, who is on the Governor’s Wisconsin Council of Tourism, on the Board of the Wisconsin Hotel and Lodging Association, and a…
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As Walker signs the REINS Act into law, a new report examines the extent of Wisconsin’s regulatory code
A brand new report has found that Wisconsin’s administrative code contains nearly 160,000 regulatory restrictions. The report was published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a market-oriented academic research center. It would take the average person 667 hours or, almost 17 weeks, to read the 2017 Wisconsin Administrative Code, assuming that person spent…
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Vukmir echoes Walker encouraging Congress to give states block grants
State Sen. Leah Vukmir, R–Brookfield, Tuesday endorsed Gov. Scott Walker’s request of the White House and Congress to send states block grants, giving them full responsibility for health care programs. “Healthcare is very personal,” said Vukmir, chairman of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee. “That’s why those closest to our constituents, not Washington bureaucrats,…