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City, County, and Schools Spent $1B Since 2018 — You Got Street Cracks, Empty Promises, and a Tax Bill That Whispers ‘Bend Over‘

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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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FOIA Fiesta: Because Transparency Shouldn’t Require Telepathy

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Big news from your favorite local watchdogs-with-wifi: SoupNutz just got a document management system. That’s right—now we can properly tag, identify, and list every FOIA doc we’ve pried loose from City Hall’s clenched fists over…

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Why Is Superior’s Government So Afraid of the First Amendment?

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When Locals Face Corruption, The First Amendment Is Their Best Shield “They Turned the Lights Off While I Was Lactating” – Inside LeRette’s Lawsuit In Superior, Wisconsin, scandal isn’t confined to backroom deals; it leaks…

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