Marathon County urged to seek answers from Alliant Energy

Gross property tax levies across Wisconsin collectively grew by 5.8% 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. Some areas saw much larger increases: gross levi...

To the Editor: Once upon a time the World was in balance. Trees and abundant other forms of plant growth needed, and absorbed, carbon-dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere. They gave back their waste product, oxygen. A limited population of humans and numerous animal species needed the oxygen and gave back their waste product, carbon-dioxide. The World was in balance.The exponential growth of human ci...