Letter to the editor: Our government should never be a business

Letter to the editor: Our government should never be a business

I often hear people advocate for government to be run like a business. However, business and government are fundamentally different due to their core purposes, priorities and accountability.

Government shouldn’t look at events as cash cows - Central Wisconsin News

Government should exist to serve the public, not seek to profit from it. That doesn’t seem to be the case in Marathon County where communities are beginning to line up for their opportunity to pick the pockets of event organizers. On April 28, members of the Athens Village Board approved a plan to charge event organizers $100 per hour for each village law enforcement officer they request