Bill Osmulski

Five bills have the potential to lead to higher local property taxes.

The non-road requests include a pedestrian underpass, bike paths, bus shelters, and equipment purchases. Requests for bike paths/pedestrian walkways alone hit $50 million.

Loopholes and exceptions in Wisconsin’s property tax law ensure tax bills always go up despite levy limits and other political fixes.

Sometimes objective truth is no match for the governor’s feelings.

NWTC completes the “Embracing Diversity” competency requirement by having all faculty take the “Living Inclusively,” course.

When it comes to crimes like felony hit and run, defendants are often released without any kind of supervision at all.

Overseas and military voters must have ballots for at least 45 days before an election, and Haas’ timeline would only have provided 29 days between the primary and general elections.

Wisconsin school districts could soon be unleashed to spend as much as they want without going to referendum – as long as it’s in the name of energy efficiency.

The city wants to create the TID to capture the tax revenue the new apartments will generate to fund the construction of a city park. Whether or not the park is built will have no impact on the completion of the private development.

The state’s support of the PFA is inexplicable. Wisconsin is the only state to officially sanction a conduit bond house like this, and there is no benefit to the state or to state taxpayers to do so.