The Utilities Committee of the Appleton City Council will meet on Tuesday, September 8, at 4:30 pm. The one action item on this committee's agenda is a request to approve the City Forester (and city's forestry department) applying to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for a cost-share grant for urban forestry catastrophic storm projects. 

The first discussion of a potential Wheel Tax came at a Special Town Board meeting held on June 23, 2026, at 9:00 AM. Only two residents, myself and one other, were in attendance at the special meeting. That means, with only one discussion, and without seeking any resident input, the Board, in a vacuum, created a new Town tax in just a two-week period. This special Town Board meeting raised several issues.

On Monday, July 6, Fox Valley Initiative will feature two speakers: Laura Ackmann of Moms for Liberty and Carolyn Pierre of Guardian School Consulting [invited]. Both organizations are working to protect children from sexual predators in schools. The problem of sexual misconduct by teachers and other school staff has grown in the Fox Valley and across Wisconsin.

I have questions about the Wilden Portfolio Park development (at Thrivent) and the proposal that Appleton create a 14th Tax Incremental District (TID) to help incentivize this development. The Appleton City Council should consider both sides of this pancake. The colorful sprinkles presented by Thrivent’s request to create a Tax ID are all obtainable without a TID.

According to the 2020 Census, nearly SIX TIMES as many people in Outagamie County are Catholic: 62,763 Catholics versus an estimated 10,725 LGBTQIA+. Add in the numbers who belong to other Christian faiths, and you can see how many more people in Outagamie County are Christian than LGBTQIA+. So why is the Pride Flag being flown at the County Courthouse, but the Christian flag cannot be?

Keep fanning the flame to ignite the inferno that will make the will of the people impossible to ignore. Verifiable elections will only come to Wisconsin as a result of an informed electorate demanding change. 

Recent action by the Wisconsin Elections Commission shows that the MacIver Institute's commitment to election integrity is forcing officials to take notice and address key failings in our election system.