Fiscal Facts: Tax Levy Has Biggest Jump in Two Decades

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 that school district’s $41 million budget, the few hundred dollars difference between the proposals, amounts to less than a rounding error – representing about .01 percent of the overall budget. While how elected...

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...