Vilas County officials need to rein in unrestrained growth To the Editor: I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the potential development of Riverside Park in Eagle River and …
A balancing act: Using Road salt responsibly while maintaining waters Dear Readers: Winter in the North Woods consists of snow-heaped pines and ice-covered expanses of lakes. …
Surplus money spurs talk of property tax relief Another year, another standoff between Dem Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican Legislature. This time the issue is property taxes and Evers’ …
Mind over matter “Sometimes I can't believe I’m going to be 60. I always say there’s no point moaning about getting older, when there’s nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find …
What do you do when the thermometer reads 25 below and the TV weatherman bellows in your ear that the “feel like” temperature outside is more like 50 below? My first thought would be to grab …
What’s huge to one person is just a little shaver to someone else. As a little shaver myself, about 70 years ago, I decided that there was no larger body of water in the world than Trout Lake. …
It was a meeting reduced to a discussion of excrement. Literally, not figuratively. When an Eagle River resident stated that she walks her dog daily through the park parcel Eagle River …
Parenting comes with plenty of challenges, and sometimes those challenges can extend into the legal system. In Wisconsin, parents can face legal or financial consequences if their child’s actions …
These are the times that try men’s souls. No truer words have ever been spoken, words that were uttered by Thomas Paine in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. Lately, I have been saying the …
Across the country, teachers and administrators are working to address two major challenges: learning loss and student engagement. A variety of factors make it difficult for students to attend …
The ratio of state and local taxes that Wisconsinites paid as a share of their personal income fell to the lowest levels on record in 2022. The same was true of our state’s national rank for this …
Laken Riley set out for a peaceful morning jog the day that she violently died. It was a trail run, the type of workout that college students would assume to be a safe excursion, on the paved …
“Elections have consequences. I won.” —Barack Obama, October 25, 2010 “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” …
Dear Editor: The permits recently issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) demonstrate what the Enbridge Line 5 relocation project supporters have been saying for a while …
The rush to decode the Latino male vote for Donald Trump has been exasperating. A solid assessment is still far off. Crucial context is missing, undercut by sketchy understandings of what it means to …
Let’s step back a few years to trace the beginning of high stakes school test-taking in America. It’s January 8, 2002. The place is Hamilton, Ohio. The speaker is President George W. Bush on …
Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 on his way to beating Hillary Clinton. Then he lost Wisconsin in 2020 as Joe Biden won back the “Blue Wall.”’ And now, in 2024, Trump won back Wisconsin …
Call it a homecoming. Before there were European settlers who arrived in south central Wisconsin. Before the first cabins were raised. Before the first plow turned the soil. Before a state line …
The U.S. military is apologizing, attempting to make amends in the way that it often does for past mistakes — with paperwork. Officials have been busy upgrading “less than honorable” discharges …
The Biden administration has put forward a new policy framework that would upend the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, a bipartisan law that has supported millions of jobs and led to the creation of thousands of …