What is the Premier Resort Area Tax (PRAT) or what the Geneva Shore Report chooses to call the Resort Area Tax (RAT)?
It is the only “city sales tax” that is permitted in the State of Wisconsin. It’s technically a tax on business in the resort’s area; however…..
That white van in the alley. What’s going in those alleys running east and west behind, and between, many of Lake Geneva’s businesses and restaurants? Workers are parking their vehicles in those alleys and then walking away and leaving them while they work.
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Chief Olson, Police Chief of Fontana, continues his tirade against humanity, and it appears he doesn’t care whether ‘humanity’ wears blue (like him, except he really wears Darth Vader black’), or not. …….
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In the last City Council meeting in July, Dan “Piggy Bank” Winkler said, based on his annual survey of the roads in Lake Geneva, that they have an average road rating between six and six-and-a-half on a scale of ten, with ten being the best. What was not said is that Piggy Bank (as in “check your change”) used the city’s road rating to selectively skew the ratings to select…
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Fellow Mortals wins one. On Friday, the 29th of July, 2016 at 8:30 am, Walworth County Judge Koss presided over a packed courtroom wherein the attendants kept adding chairs until finally opening up another room which provided television access to the proceedings..
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