I hit the sauce pretty hard

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...

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 ...