“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax the fellow behind the tree.” So stated Russell Billiu Long U.S. Senate Finance Committee chairman from Louisiana. At the 5.13.13 Lake Geneva City Council meeting Tom Hartz, lobbying for the Geneva Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, spoke in favor of keeping the downtown Lake Geneva TIF distinct open, [...]

 Linn township group, Care for Lake Geneva filed a complaint in Walworth County Circuit Court against the City of Lake Geneva over violations of Wisconsin Open Meetings Statutes. In recent years the city has conducted a larger and larger amount of their business in “Closed Session”. According to City officials what goes on in Closed [...]

In small town Wisconsin sometimes local “business leaders” put improvements into their downtown and get it wrong, very wrong from an esthetic perspective, or lack there of. About 15 years ago Lake Geneva formed a committee for downtown beautification and selected new street lights to improve the downtown, the criteria was bigger is better – [...]

The last 12 years in areas of the City of Lake Geneva, homes have been converted to vacation rentals and split up into multifamily residences, while the elected officials have ignored pleas from the neighborhoods. It is the power of the local realtors, who have a lucrative side line renting homes weekly to vacationers, and [...]

Crony capitalism is alive and flourishing in the City of Lake Geneva with Good O’ Boys Gage Marine and McCormack & Etten getting juicy contracts for government work on the taxpayer’s dime. Gage Marine once again got the job of adding more boat slips to the municipal pier on the West End of Library Park. [...]

  April 25, 2013 The spring kayaking season is roaring down the White River outside Lake Geneva this year, with the resent heavy rains, the river is really ripping. The launching place most of the local kayaks take off from is on Sheridan Springs Road in the Township of Lyons.  Going north on Sheridan Springs [...]

During the tax-evasion trial of Leona Helmsley, a former housekeeper testified that she heard her employer say: “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” How much are two golf courses at ” one of the top award-winning golf resorts in the country and ranked as one of the 2012 top 10 northern [...]

The Copper Kettle Ranch owned by Duane Clark for nearly five decades, has given Walworth County an option to purchase his 190 acres ranch to for the purpose of becoming a natural resource park. The property has one hundred eleven acres tillable with soil of numerous types. The farm was in the soil bank for [...]

Marina Bay Boat Rental after having their appeal rejected by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is now applying for a new pier which will meet the city of Lake Geneva’s 100 foot pier-head ordinance. The Lake Geneva Planning commission will hear their application on 2. 18.13. The pier is in Baker Park and subject to the [...]

Legal options run out for Marina Bay and Harbor Cove, pier must come into conformity with municipal 100 foot length. The city of Lake Geneva prevails in battle with Marina Bay Boat Rentals  to get the business to comply with the law requiring piers to be 100 feet or less on Lake Geneva. The Wisconsin [...]