It is time to divorce the location from the license and focus instead on the businesses providing the service when it comes to the ability to serve alcoholic beverages at weddings and other events. The burgeoning wedding-barn business in Wisconsin faces the risk of being shut down by lawmakers unable to think outside the box on the state’s liquor laws. Under proposed changes to the state’s

Your Rightto Know / Elisabeth Lambert In recent years, public schools in Wisconsin and across the country have come under intense scrutiny. At issue are some of the most politically engaging, highstakes issues of our time: what we teach children about race, gender and identity; how we police the line between free speech and anti-discrimination law; and the role of parents in shaping their childrens’

Juliana Riemann is correct when it comes to the economic impact extraction mining will have on any given area because eventually the minerals are gone. Once the ore is removed and there is no more the mine will be closed, local jobs created by the mine (usually very few) will be gone permanently, most employees (professional miners) will move on to another mine and another location. At that moment

Wisconsin needs to focus on the long term future of the the state and direct tax cuts to where it will provide an investment for the future and balance deep tax cuts for retirees with tax incentives for young families. A group of Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to exempt retirement income for virtually all Wisconsin residents. State Rep. David Steffen, R-Howard, and state Sen.

The authors of a proposed state constitutional amendment to prevent churches from being shut down during states of emergency have too much COVID on their minds. The proposal, which was introduced by Sen. Cory Tomczyk, R-Mosinee, and Rep. Ty Bodden, R-Hilbert aims to prevent local and state government officials from being able to restrict religious gatherings during a state of emergency. The legislation

A hot mess. That is the charitable description of the current state of Taylor County’s efforts to overhaul county operations with the goals of consolidating committees, getting more inclusion of board members, reducing micromanaging, reducing operational costs, empowering department heads, developing a long range vision for the county, and bringing about peace in our time. With all the

“It’s good to be the king,” - Mel Brooks in “History of the World Part I” In an attention-grabbing move that highlights both the power and the potential abuse of the line item veto, Gov. Tony Evers last week signed a state budget which promised increases in school funding for the next 400 years and which gutted tax cuts for the highest tax brackets. According to the non-partisan Legislative