Today's Opinion
The economy is still fragile
Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker came to Pleasant Prairie to help announce the move of a new employer to LakeView Corporate Park.
The company, Catalyst Exhibits, of Crystal Lake, Ill., expects to bring 85 jobs here and hopes to create two dozen more by 2014. The company makes exhibits for trade shows.
...MoreSmoke-free law has the intended effect
The law that prohibits smoking in taverns is good for bartenders’ health.
That’s the unsurprising conclusion of a study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Urban Initiatives and Research. The project took data from 531 working bartenders before the law went into effect and again three to six months afterward.
...MoreUnified won’t have many choices
Kenosha Unified School District officials have projected a $29 million hole in the budget for the next school year, and they are going to have to find a way to fill it without making changes in the contract with the teachers union.
The Kenosha Education Association, which represents teachers as well as other groups of workers, has refused to reopen the contract because of concerns that revisions couldn’t be finished before changes to collective bargaining laws take effect. The governor signed the changes last week, and the new law is expected to go into effect on March 25.
...MorePolitics in Video
Local Columnists
These are still radio days
By Jon Kaplan...More
Don’t blame the unions
By Steve Lund...More
ROTC will help Harvard and the rest of the country
by Arthur I. Cyr...More
Cartoons
Syndicated Columnists
Obama’s audacity deficit on guns
By E.J. DIONNE JR....More
Keeping some of us afraid of the rest of us
By Leonard Pitts Jr....More
Why we loved David Broder
By E.J. DIONNE JR....More
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