RACINE — She may not have gotten her hearing before the City Council, but a local real estate agent hasn’t given up her quest to use a painted truck tire as a planter. Despite receiving a rejection ...

RACINE — A Racine property owner is bemoaning a plan commission ruling denying her request to use a painted tire as a planter, and she is hoping to get a few aldermen in her corner.

Hippies, organic gardeners and New Age environmentalists would like to think they invented recycling, but they didn’t. Cottage gardeners, country folks and those on the low end of the economic scale ...