Browsing Posts in Issues

Our usual practice at LittleChuteMatters.org is to avoid endorsing candidates for office. Instead, we try to encourage debate about public policy issues that matter to our community, rather than endorsing individual candidates in their bids for public office. But today, I’ll hang my editor’s hat on the hatrack over in the corner, and just write […]

This week is full of questions. And the darndest thing is that good questions often have tough answers, or sometimes, no answers at all. Take our elections on Tuesday for example. Who do we vote for on Tuesday? How many of us will even vote at all? Will it make a difference who wins? We […]

Six State Senators will face off with their challengers at the voting booths tomorrow (Tuesday, August 9): Rob Cowles versus Nancy Nusbaum (district 2), Alberta Darling versus Sandra Pasch (district 8), Sheila Harsdorf versus Shelly Moore (district 10), Luther Olsen versus Fred Clark (district 14), Randy Hopper versus Jessica King (district 18) and Dan Kapanke […]

OK. I’ve had writer’s block since April. I keep focusing on politics instead of fun things like CheeseFest and Memorial and Flag Day parades and sports and such. Focused, but unable to write about it. Much to my own dismay and distress. I keep waiting for, I don’t know, reasonableness maybe? Civility, perhaps. Or maybe […]

Interesting Election results last week ! In Little Chute, we had a landslide victory for Mike Vanden Berg for Village President. In addition, the two incumbent Trustees (and one retiring Trustee) were replaced by challengers. This means that in little more than a year, all of the Village Board and the Village President have been […]