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State payments rise; municipal service costs increase more

State policymakers provided the largest funding increase on record in 2025 for a program that reimburses municipalities to provide services to state facilities such as colleges, universities, or priso...
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Support educational farm stay bill

Wisconsin legislators should support a bill that would open the door for more local control and revenue opportunities for Wisconsin’s farm families. Under current law, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection issues licenses to regulate campgrounds. A person may not manage or operate a campground without such a license. According to the legislative reference bureau under A...

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Don’t open door for patient exploitation in name of expediency

Even well-intentioned efforts can have negative consequences. That is the case with AB 598, a bill passed last week by the Wisconsin Assembly impacting people who haven't named a power of attorney for healthcare. The intent of the bill is to speed the process to get patients who are incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves out of hospital beds and into nursing home or community...

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Writer shares the story of “Amos and Me”

Amos Phelps must have thought his grandson was a sissy. In 1776 Amos signed up to fight in the Revolution, a year after young Darius figured he had done his bit and took a discharge. Amos was 72 years old. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, Thomas Paine would write that year, “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their countr...

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Proceed with caution on committee consolidation efforts

While efforts to try and streamline government operations at the county level may be admirable, board members should proceed with caution and take a lesson from building in measuring twice and cutting once. Members of the county’s committee on committees and rules met last week to consider revisions to county code about how members are selected to serve on highway and the land conservation an...

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Put the brakes on self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin

Wisconsin legislators need to put the brakes on a plan to use Wisconsin residents as crash test dummies and the state’s roads as test-tracks for unproven technology. Rep. Dave Maxey, R-New Berlin has called for Wisconsin to open the door to having fully autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. As reported in the Feb. 4 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Maxey testified in support of legislatio...

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Writer says to follow the money for political influence

“Follow the money” is a famous line from All the President’s Men, the film about the Watergate scandal. Watergate exposed corruption at the highest levels of government—people in power abusing that power to intimidate critics and cover up illegal actions in order to maintain and expand control. For many Americans in 2026, that phrase feels relevant again. Dana White, CEO of Ultimate ...

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