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At Monday night’s Medford School Board annual meeting, there was a nearly hour-long discussion about how, and how much, school board members should be paid. In the context of the district’s $41 million budget, the few hundred dollars difference between the proposals amounts to less than a rounding error — representing about .01% of the overall budget. While how elected officials choose...

Wisconsin must move quickly to enact regulations to protect consumers from the real risk of predatory pricing and put guardrails on demand-based price increases. Global multi-national retailers have made headlines in recent weeks with announcement of plans to switch to electronic pricing labels for store shelves. As anyone familiar with working retail knows, updating prices on store shelves is ...

It is time to repeal, replace and reform the fuel tax in Wisconsin. An ongoing war with Iran, sanctions against Russian fuel, and now attacks on Saudi oil shipping — coupled with some good-old fashioned corporate greed on behalf of the major oil producers— has led to soaring gas and diesel prices. According to industry reports, ExxonMobil saw profits last quarter of $14.5 billion, which ...