OPINIONS
Senate must pass state REINS Act
Back in the early 2000s, the state of Wisconsin - and the Republicans controlling the government at the time - had a golden opportunity to change the way the regulatory world works, and they botched it.The issue then was the power of the Department of Natural Resources and its reign …
Civil service reform doesn't go far enough
Gov. Scott Walker this week signed into law the first significant reform of the state's civil-service system in its history, and we think it's a positive step forward, if not quite adequate to whip into shape the partisan bureaucrats who are still running amok in the governor's administration.We're not actually …
What in the world is Moustakis trying to protect?
As we report in today's edition, Vilas County district attorney Al Moustakis has trooped all the way to the state Supreme Court in an attempt to deny The Lakeland Times access to certain records held by the state Department of Justice.
Shame, Shame, Shame
Remember that chant from 2011, when Gov. Scott Walker took on special-interest public-sector unions and cut them down to size. Shame, Shame, Shame, the protesters yelled.In the end, though, as we pointed out then, the shame was really on the protesters. They were defending an indefensible special-interest elite class of …
Guns
There are so many horrible aspects to President Obama's latest attempt to kill the Second Amendment, it's hard to know where to begin in dissecting them.Perhaps the biggest flaw is in the process - as in the process by which we make laws in this country, you know, according to …
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Is this the end of the Republican Party?
On his radio show the other week, Rush Limbaugh wondered if the Republican Party should just be disbanded. (subscriber access)
The very real dangers of legislative privilege
As our recent stories on legislative privilege indicate, there's more than one way to skin a cat, especially if that cat goes by the name of public records.
A lawsuit waiting to happen
For whatever individual reasons they chose to do so, supervisors on the Oneida County Planning and Development Committee rejected the legal advice of their corporation counsel at their last meeting and tabled two requests by property owners to create new riparian lots.
Happy Thanksgiving
We stop today, as we always do, to join our fellow Americans in giving thanks for this great nation and for the people who make it so.
We shall never surrender
President Obama is mad - though not apparently fighting mad - about the recent turn of world events.
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It's time to ban automobiles
Every time there's a shooting, we hear liberal politicians from President Barack Obama on down call for gun control and for restricting or ending the Second Amendment rights of Americans to own a gun.
Who needs tourism?
We know, it's a stupid question, and it's not the only one being asked around town these days. Over at the Minocqua Area Chamber of Commerce, they are coming up with boatloads of stupid questions.
Our View: A glimpse of sunlight in the DNR
We suppose the good news in shoreland zoning is that the Department of Natural Resources has become involved in sorting out the new state laws.That's right, that's the good news. In the past, when that outfit was the good news, we knew we were in trouble.
House regs bill could help small businesses step on the gas
While creeping along in holiday traffic on the way to grandma's house later this month, take comfort that despite detours and fender-benders, you'll eventually get there. For millions of American small-business owners, arrival at their final destination, success, is not assured. The way is often blocked by complex federal regulations …
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