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Bangstad arrested, charged with harassing Walker again

Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad engaged in indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, and otherwise disorderly conduct as he and others at his establishment hurled profanities at Lakeland Times publisher Gregg Walker as Walker left the newspaper office for the day on Friday, June 27.

America’s farm legacy is fast disappearing

Farming is not a job for the timid.
Which, apparently, means it’s a job for gray old men. And that is a growing problem in America, though it seldom gets much attention because so few people these days have ties to the land.

Oswald leaves Beloit Daily News

Sports reporter Jimmy Oswald has left the Beloit Daily News for a new job that will bring him closer to his alma mater, Kent State University, and his hometown of Howland, Ohio.

When transparency is disregarded

Recent weeks have brought forth two of the most egregious violations of the public’s right to know that I have seen in more than three decades of tracking openness issues on the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.