The New Game in Town: “Your House Went Up, So Pay Up” If you own a home in Superior, Wisconsin, congratulations: your property’s “value” jumped and now your tax bill is doing CrossFit. We’re using…
Superior’s $pending Spree: How Your City Stacks Up Against Wisconsin Neighbors
You’ve heard the numbers. Superior’s city government, school district, and county have burned through over $1 billion since 2018. But here’s the question that keeps taxpayers up at night: Is this normal? Are other Wisconsin cities…
Mayor Jim Paine’s Executive Budget Surge: The 2-Person Powerhouse Draining Your Tax Dollars?
The Fastest-Growing Department in Superior? The Mayor’s Office—And It Still Only Has The Same Two People SoupNutz Exclusive: When the Mayors Office Outgrows Every Other Department in City Hall In a town where potholes have…
Top 3 Employers in Douglas County All Publicly Funded—Coincidentally, So Are All the Tax Hikes
One house. Three government entities. Endless regret. Soupnutz Exclusive: How Owning a $215,000 Home in the City of Superior is Just Paying Rent to the Government Let’s Do the Mill Math — So You Don’t…
Mayor Jim’s Budget: Now With 35% More Bloat!
Superior’s Tax Shell Game: Federal Windfall Masks Cities 35% Spending Explosion SUPERIOR, WI — While City of Superior officials tout a slight decrease in property tax collections for 2024, newly obtained financial records reveal a troubling reality:…
City, County, and Schools Spent $1B Since 2018 — You Got Street Cracks, Empty Promises, and a Tax Bill That Whispers ‘Bend Over‘
Soupnutz Crashes Into a Billion-Dollar Budget Party — No Confetti, Just Receipts You know it’s bad when a snarky blog stumbles into a billion dollars in public spending and the reaction from City Hall is…
Krampus Jim Strikes Again: Superior’s Naughty List Is Getting Longer
Welcome to Christmas in the Paine, where the lights are bright, the debt is brighter, and City Hall keeps singing carols while quietly setting fire to the balance sheet. This year’s holiday hit isn’t from…
How the Superior School Board Stole Christmas (and Your Equity)
🎄 A Very Taxing Christmas: How the Superior School District Gifted You a Lump of Coal and Another Property Tax Hike ❄️ “Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the halls,Not a brain cell…
SHA: Superior’s Hidden Agenda or Superior’s Housing Authority?
Superior’s Housing Time Bomb: Worst-Case Scenario for 2026–2027 Featuring Mayor Jim Paine, the Rubber Stamp Choir, and the Ghost of Housing Authorities Past SoupNutz Exclusive Forecast “Ain’t nobody got time for affordable housing when your…
BREAKING : Superior’s Dynamic Duds, Mayor Jim and Jason Serck, Face Civil Rights Jury Trial — City Budget Braces for Impact. (Court Dates Inside)
BREAKING: 2700 Winter Lawsuit Moves Toward Trial, Superior Still Pretending It’s All Normal Well, grab your calendars and mark your dysfunction bingo cards, folks — the case of 2700 Winter, LLC v. Jim “What Zoning?”…