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Imagine you and your significant other dating for months. You’ve talked about a color scheme for your wedding. Maybe you’ve picked out rings and debated how many children you’d like to bring into the world. And then he drops a bomb. He tells you he’d like to see other people, to explore other opportunities. But even so, he wants to keep up with the wedding planning. You might feel like Janesville and city of Milton officials felt when they learned the town of Milton is considering alternatives to a plan that would merge the Janesville and Milton fire departments.

Rock Haven administrators were getting lots of heat for their vaccination policy, but remarkably the county board with its action Jan. 28 managed to make the situation worse.

Delivery of vaccine is not going as smoothly. Vaccinations are being rolled out in a cumbersome phased system, and states such as Wisconsin are complaining they don’t know far enough in advance when they’ll be getting how much vaccine. While the vaccines were being developed, state and local officials had months to scheme about how the vaccine should be distributed, to whom and in what order. All of that was figured out a long time ago, right? Wrong. The vaccine is being distributed in Wisconsin to Phase 1A recipients—frontline hospital staff and nursing homes. That’s abou...

Nobody likes potholes. Providing well-maintained streets is one of the fundamental duties of municipal government, but the price of asphalt and other street construction costs are on a steep climb, with Janesville averaging 8% annual increases. At the same time, the ability of municipalities such as Janesville to pay for streets is hobbled by state-imposed levy limits, which the League of Wisconsin Municipalities says are the “strictest property tax levy limits in the country.” The city went to referendum in 2014, asking voters for permission to exceed the levy limit—by up to $...

The public needs relief — not everyone, just the minority who've experienced the pandemic most acutely.