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Homecoming hijinks crossed the line in Medford last week as students threw eggs at the school building, businesses, private homes, and vehicles in the community. Unlike toilet paper in trees, which at best indirectly supports the logging and paper making industries in Wisconsin and at worst will be gone after the next rainstorm; eggs contain sulfur compounds and amino acids. When they dry in th...

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 ...