Has America lowered its standards on everything? Can you imagine owning a very large corporation and the person you put in charge is sabotagin…
On November 8, suncity published a letter that was critical of AB 415, the bill for nonpartisan redistricting. The writer supports nonpart…
Are you aware that October was Hate Crimes Awareness Month? I didn’t think much about it until I found that a White Supremacist organization h…
Jerry Peterson's letter to suncity November 1, page A6 was so fitting on the Veteran's Service Office.
For more than a decade, Wisconsinites have been asking for a transparent, independent, nonpartisan redistricting process to create voting maps…
Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point.
In my military career, I was frequently deployed on the U.S. Navy’s massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers into combat and on more routine …
With the world seemingly teetering between democracy and authoritarianism, you might feel overshadowed by gloom this Thanksgiving.
We all come from families. We all have family stories we don’t repeat in public. But we live our lives knowing we have family.
Exactly three years after his surprise choice as the state Senate’s new leader, Republican Sen. Devin LeMahieu has grown into his role as majo…
In suncity and communities across the U.S., local businesses and their hometown newspapers have long had a symbiotic relationship. Each ser…
The delayed investigation into Lemke’s death is a stark local reminder of the need to adequately staff state crime labs, so criminal investiga…
This past week at the Rock County 4-H Fair there were pig and duck races, carnival rides, funnel cakes, and the chance for local kids to show …
Here in suncity, it’s time to allow a COVID-19 city policy change that since 2020 has greatly expedited the approval process for downtown s…
The Rock County Board has devoted a considerable amount of time this spring and early summer to debating and voting on social issue declarations.
More than 90% of prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with generic drugs. These cheaper alternatives to branded medications have expanded acce…
In the name of national security, former South Carolina governor and current Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wants to use govern…
If these were normal times, Ukraine would be preparing to hold presidential elections in March. But with war raging and parts of the country u…
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that aims to undo a federal prohibition on people with domestic violence restraini…
Let’s hope the delusional demonstrators sympathizing with Hamas — in the United States and elsewhere — caught the translation of a recent inte…
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Last week was the anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation in history, yet the media and public paid little heed. During October 22-28 …
As a general, Dwight D. Eisenhower led Allied troops to victory over Adolf Hitler’s racist and genocidal regime.
ECHO, Inc would like to thank all of the restaurants and our sponsors for this year's Empty Bowls, To Go. With their support, we were able to …
Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. House members generally kept low profiles during their party’s three-week public struggle to elect a House speaker…
Hours after Republicans ended their three-week impasse last Wednesday and came together to elect a new speaker of the House, the lower chamber…
This spring I wrote about the Birds coming back. Not robins or orioles but the scooter variety.
No matter where we live, we all deserve and need clean drinking water.
It’s a rare issue that can bring 41 states together for a bipartisan fight. This week, state attorneys general across the political spectrum j…
While attributed to multiple people, the saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different resu…
Save a life and make your own better by giving an older dog a home during national “Adopt a Senior Pet Month” this November.
The object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done but cannot do for themselves in their separate an…
I am an engineering product designer, long retired. Good fences make good neighbors except the United States southern border fence/ wall that …
Excessive use of smartphones and social media is linked to rising rates of teenage depression and self-harm, while also damaging students’ aca…
Where has the county administration’s concern gone for getting value for the money spent in the county’s annual budget?
Given the magnitude of the amount allocated, it’s unlikely we’ll ever truly know the extent to which con artists, fraudsters and elected offic…
The Rock County District Attorney's Office is dedicated to ensuring crime victims receive the necessary assistance and resources they deserve.…
I have serious concerns about the recent push in Washington to overregulate many of the chemicals our country uses in everyday products. Not o…