Transparency key in trusting the police

Nobody had a twinkle in his eye like the late Frank Zebro, county supervisor from the town of Emmet. And that twinkle never gleamed so brightly than when Zebro, a member of the Land Conservation Committee, hauled out old county conservation manifestos and, in reading them aloud, pointed out that the problems of cropland erosion, phosphorus and nitrogen run-off and water pollution dog us decad...

The Marathon County Board of Supervisors passed a June Dairy Month proclamation last month. It did so without discussion or debate. That’s a shame, because, with agriculture in crisis, there is a lot to talk about. The proclamation rattles off the standard statistics. Marathon County ranks third in Wisconsin for milk production. The county’s dairy industry contributes $2.03 billi...