Awareness, sweet treats, and a sci-fi adventure

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...

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...

The partisan primary elections are less than a month away, do you know who you are voting for? Candidates have been busy over the last few months attending dairy breakfasts, park concerts, party events, parades, and anywhere else they can find potential voters to try and sway to support them. This year’s election season is even more busy than normal, with wide open races for the 7th Congressi...