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…
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Douglas County, WI: The Wild West of Wisconsin Politics
Welcome to Douglas County—where the trees outnumber the people, and local politics make reality TV look boring. Nestled in the rugged beauty of northern Wisconsin, Douglas County is where Lake Superior crashes against the shore, deer outnumber residents, and everyone’s got an opinion on how to fix the roads (spoiler: they never get fixed).
Home to the city of Superior—aka Duluth’s scrappier sibling—Douglas County is a patchwork of small towns, sprawling forests, and enough community boards to make your head spin. Whether it’s figuring out who actually runs what, our political scene is a mix of passionate arguments and good old-fashioned Midwestern stubbornness.
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?”…
Fourth Civil Rights Suit Filed Against Superior—This One Comes with Breast Pumps and GPS Trackers (Read the Lawsuit)
Boobs, Bugs, and Badges: Allegations Rock Superior, Wisconsin PD Lede You Didn’t See Coming In a federal lawsuit filed in March 2025, a Superior, Wisconsin police officer alleges she was forced to express breast milk in a…
Superior’s City Council Votes Are Missing Like Where’s Waldo—and Maybe So Is Any Legal Immunity For Members of the Council?
Where’s Waldo? Superior’s Missing Council Votes—and the 4 Civil Rights Lawsuits That Aren’t Hiding Nearly as Well Soupnutz.net – The Home of Municipal Roast Sessions Superior’s Democracy: Now With 4 Civil Rights Lawsuits and Zero…
Coming Tomorrow – Democracy? Never Heard of Her: Superior City Council Hides Votes, Citizens told to Pound Sand!
🚨 Teaser Alert: In Superior, Wisconsin—where your alder‑person is meant to march out of committee and into public view—the scoreboard is missing. The Superior City Council just casts votes that should have been recorded, open…
UWS Police: 72 Tickets, $10,000 in Fines, and One Officer Who Clearly Needs a Hobby
Officer J. Fouts in Superior, WI, doles out traffic citations like candy, raising debate on enforcement vs. revenue generation. Is public safety at stake?
Monday’s Moos-Flash: UWS Unleashes the Cash Cow with a Clipboard
Hold onto your parking permits, folks — UW-Superior’s turning curbside compliance into a goldmine with their newest campus celebrity: the ticket writer with no chill. You thought tuition was the scam? Think again. This isn’t…