Letter to the editor: On May 18th, there will be a trial at the request of the Bad River Band (branch of the Chippewa Tribe) for immediate shutdown of the Line 5 pipeline of Enbridge oil company. Due to heavy winter snows and a rainy spring, the tribe alleges,...
Category: Opinion
Nass: New local option sales taxes for Milwaukee ‘blindly kick(s) open the door’
Editor’s note: The following statement from State Sen. Steve Nass, regarding “Milwaukee Bailout Bill,” or Assembly Bill 245, was issued Thursday for publication. Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, issued the following statement regarding the rapidly advancing Milwaukee Bailout Bill that also includes new money for the Shared Revenue Program: There are...
Bird’s Eye View: Bird flu is ‘the new normal’
By Anita Martin While it’s been five months since avian influenza struck a commercial gamebird operation here in Ixonia, Wis., the possibility of bird flu is, unfortunately, far from gone. During the past month, H5N1 avian influenza has been detected in wild birds in 26 states, in nearly two dozen...
Johnson: Republican shared revenue plan helps all
Editor’s note: the following commentary has been submitted for publication by the office of State Rep. Scott Johnson. State Rep. Scott Johnson, R-Jefferson, appeared at the rollout of the Assembly GOP’s historic plan to update Wisconsin’s shared revenue funding formula. As part of the plan, 20% of the state sales tax...
Commentary: Co-op and affordable corporate grocer: ‘there is plenty of room’
By Brienne Diebolt-BrownWhitewater Grocery Co. incorporated in 2017 after our only grocery store closed. Local leaders had numerous talks with corporate and family-owned grocery stores and came from those meetings with the message that Whitewater wasn’t worth the investment. And we knew we could prove them wrong!We are thrilled that...