Don’t let vandals win

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 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 Congression...

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreement with John Deere is good news for farmers and is a boost for consumers. The proposed agreement was completed July 8 by the FTC and the attorneys general of Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It will require Deere to make repair software, diagnostic tools and technical resources available to farmers and independent repair providers...