By JAMES (JIM) RICE Monroe County Board supervisor This letter is in response to a letter that appeared in the March 1 issue of the County Line and is from a businessman who has businesses in Tomah and Sparta. He can support any candidate he wants in the April 3,...
Guest column: VEDA makes progress on Food Enterprise Center
By KATHY NEIDERT Vernon Economic Development Association The Vernon Economic Development Association is transforming the former NCR plant on the north end of Viroqua into the innovative Food Enterprise Center, and the evidence is visible on the outside of the building...
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Money & Politics: Sales tax reform? Not very likely
By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Todd Berry is nothing if not realistic. His 18 years at the helm of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance have taught him that good public policy often doesn’t get past the gatekeeper of politics. “The pressure...
Letter to the editor: Buswell’s letter was distasteful
By FERNNELL BECHER | Norwalk Whether it be a newspaper article or an editorial, you must try to separate the propaganda from the truth. As a citizen of Monroe County, I find Brian Buswell's letter to the editor very distasteful. It ridicules our former county board...
Money & Politics: Nonprofit news outlets not all the same
By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism The other day at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s annual convention in Madison, I represented the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism on a panel titled, “Nonprofit News: What You Need to Know...
Letter to the Editor: Monroe County referendum asks voters to choose jail building plan
By BRIAN L. BUSWELL | Monroe County Board To the citizens of Monroe County: In the fall of 2009, a recall election was held. A number of us were elected to the Monroe County Board. The issue that ignited the recall was the county board's plan to build a new justice...
Monroe County political committee does dirty tricks
By LARRY McTAGGART Monroe County Board supervisor (District 16) Big-money politics and dirty tricks have come to Monroe County in the form of a new political committee called The Integrity Council. The Integrity Council is in Jackson County; its treasurer is Ernie...
Money & Politics: Inside special interests ruled on redistricting
By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism By now, the notion that outside special interests drive the political process is so widely accepted as to be almost a cliche. And often this belief is buttressed by the disclosures that lobby groups must...
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