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YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW: Anyone can lay down the law on open records

I am not a lawyer. I am a Madison resident who is curious about how the city spends money and whether it follows its own rules. A few years ago, I started writing a blog about Madison city governme...
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Marathon County is a lesson in what not to do when it comes to events

Marathon County seems to just want any events in rural parts of the county to go away and never come back. The county has a nightmare of a permitting process for events in rural communities. The event permitting process requires groups to jump through hoops, fuels the power trips of paper-pushing bureaucrats, and creates a mountain of paperwork, all in the name of being prepared for any type of...

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FISCAL FACTS: Impairment to imprisonment

The number of people incarcerated in Wisconsin state prisons for intoxicated driving offenses hit a record high in 2024, our latest research finds. In December, 2,750 adults were incarcerated in state prisons for operating-while-intoxicated (OWI) offenses, enough to fill Wisconsin’s two largest prisons. In total, Wisconsin’s OWI prison population has increased more than four-fold since 2000...

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Awareness, sweet treats, and a sci-fi adventure
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Awareness, sweet treats, and a sci-fi adventure

Greetings, everyone! Today, Wednesday, July 22, is National Fragile X Awareness Day. According to...

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Can an employer check credit before hiring?

Most people expect employers to review their resume and work history. What surprises many is that some employers also review applicants’ credit reports before making a hiring decision. For some jobs, particularly those involving financial responsibilities or positions of trust, employers may request a credit report as part of the hiring process. While the credit report an employer receives do...

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Keeping AI in its place
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Keeping AI in its place

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini … oh my! There are several language learning models (LLMs) out there, and ...

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Faster out-of-town delivery needed for periodicals

Putting out a community newspaper is a lot like running a relay race. It starts each week with the staff at the Tribune Record Gleaner putting in long hours covering meetings, events, and sitting down with residents and business owners to help share their stories. Designers then take those stories and photographs and lay out the pages. These designers are human beings, not computer algorithm...

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