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Media and Government
There are various ways to contact Wisconsin (or your own state) legislators. Please visit these sites directly to email or get the office telephone numbers. They WANT to hear from you. Grassroots individual contact DOES make a difference!
Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl
kohl.senate.gov/gen_offices.html
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold
feingold.senate.gov/contact.html
Third district US Representative Ron Kind
/www.house.gov/kind/contact.shtml
Tammy Baldwin 2nd district
tammybaldwin.house.gov/
David Obey 7th district
www.house.gov/obey/
Paul Ryan 1st district
www.house.gov/ryan/
Steve Kagen 8th district
kagen.house.gov/
Gwen Moore 4th district
www.house.gov/gwenmoore/
Thomas Petri 6th district
www.house.gov/petri/
James Sensenbrenner 5th district
www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/
State Senator Dan Kapanke
800-385-3385
sen.kapanke@legis.state.wi.us
Prairie du Chien Courier Press
NOTE: Their website pdccourier.com has archives, most with full stories on
CAFOs and Crawford County Siting law
"Letter to the Editor Policy"
Letters to the Editor can be sent to The Courier Press, Attn: Editor, P.O.
Box 149, Prairie du Chien, Wis. 53821. All letters must be signed and
include an address and phone number. All letters will be published with
credit to the author - we will not run unsigned or anonymous letters. We ask
readers to limit themselves to one letter per month. We reserve the right to
edit letters for grammar and space. This forum is meant to be a place for
the public to express their opinion, it will not be used for personal feuds.
**** Emailed letters to the editor will be accepted if there is a phone
number included so we can validate who the sender is. Editorials do not
necessarily reflect the opinions of The Courier Press or our advertisers.
They reflect the opinions of the author.
Courier Press
132 South Beaumont Rd.
Prairie du Chien, WI 53821
phone 608-326-2441
fax. 608-326-2443
howe@mhtc.net
The La Crosse Tribune policy and contacts:
Encourages letters to the editor
on current issues. Please limit letters to 250 words or less. We reserve the
right to edit all letters and require that all letters include the name,
address and phone number of the writer for verification purposes.Letter
writers will be limited to no more than one letter a month. Please do not
send poetry, or items taken from other publication or from the Internet.
Send letters to:
Letters to the editor,
La Crosse Tribune, 401 N. Third St.
La Crosse WI 54601;
fax them to (608) 782-9723, or
e-mail letters@lacrossetribune.com.
Opinion Page Editor: Richard Mial
Call Opinion page Editor: 608-791-8232
FAX letter to the editor: 608-782-9723
Wisconsin State Journal
madison.com/wsj
On line newspaper Capital Times
madison.com/tct/forums
Miscellaneous Links
Righteous Porkchop
Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms
Interesting article in the Lacrosse Tribune
concerning the CAFO Siting Law
Stopping CAFO Pollution
For late breaking news about agriculture, and to educate yourself on ag legislation, newsmakers, and things farmers are concerned about, visit:
Though national in scope Local Harvest is about local food. This site is very interactive. Sign up for their newsletter, and you can get local notices from local growers who have signed up.
REAP (Research, Education, Action and Policy on Food Group) is a non-profit organization located in Madison, Wisconsin. _REAP connects producers, consumers, policy-makers, educators, businesses and organizations to nourish the links between land and table. It has programs and events listed for Wisconsin, resources.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Thee goal of the UCS Food and Environment Program is a food system that encourages innovative and environmentally sustainable ways to produce high-quality, safe, and affordable food, while ensuring that citizens have a voice in how their food is grown. More information about the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Food and Environment Program is available on the UCS website at
Their presentation on CAFOs to the government, in pdf format is excellent!
FightingBob.com is a nonprofit, nonpartisan online opinion magazine that provides an educational forum for writers, viewpoints and topics not welcome on the pages and airwaves of most mainstream media outlets in Wisconsin. They were part sponsors of "Environmental Impacts of Large Livestock Operations" April 5 in Madison, and yearly sponsor a festival atmosphere meeting of like minded people.
Centerville Cares is a group that is in Wisconsin similar to Crawford Stewarship Project. In their area they are doing interesting water study, and are facing a struggle with water quality.
Center For Rural Affairs:
There is an excellent blog on this website. You could spend a lot of
well-spent time on this site because of the huge amount of information!
Enjoy and be educated.