– Time For A Tiara: Column by Ginna Young – - There’s always a loophole

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...

Gross property tax levies across Wisconsin, collectively grew by 5.8 percent, on December 2025 tax bills, easily outpacing inflation as the largest increase in nearly two decades. This gross figure includes all levies imposed by all local governments and school districts in Wisconsin, before any state tax credits are applied to lower net bills for homeowners. Equalized property values, as of Ja...

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...