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Is Your Local Newspaper a Good One?

This is National Newspaper Week, a celebration of the role that papers and their online platforms play in our society. Candidly, it’s a tough sell. There are no parades, stores don’t have big sale...
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Access and accountability vital for a healthy democracy

No one really knows how the game is played, The art of the trade, How the sausage gets made. We just assume that it happens, But no one else is in the room where it happens. ~ In the Room Where it Happens, from Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda In 1860s New York City, nothing happened without William “Boss” Tweed’s blessing. His Tammany Hall political machinery got a cut of the proceeds fro...

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I hit the sauce pretty hard
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I hit the sauce pretty hard

As you all know, McDonald’s is my favorite food, but except for the breakfast bagels, I truly coul...

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Rooted in community, committed to truth

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...

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There’s always a loophole
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There’s always a loophole

Loophole: A loophole is an unclear part or a mistake in a rule, law or contract, that lets people av...

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Fiscal Facts: Tax Levy Has Biggest Jump in Two Decades

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...

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Protect consumers from predatory pricing

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...

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