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Jim Pumarlo

Initiate regular conversations with news sources

Delivering news is hard work as editors well know. Stories don’t just fall in your lap. You must develop news sources, which can be a painstaking process. Sources willingly share good news. When bad news surfaces, they often create detours and roadblocks.

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Fiscal Facts: Wisconsin recycling changes

As consumers turn more heavily to online purchases, cardboard recycling has more than doubled in Wisconsin since 2013, while other paper recycling has dropped by 36%. 

This August's primary is spurring an unusual summer debate over two constitutional amendments backed by Republicans.

State Supreme Court race could set another spending record

The big-money race for ideological control of the state Supreme Court is underway. And some are betting that the two candidates and their allies will exceed the record $56 million spent in 2023, when liberals won control of the court for the first time in 15 years.

Finally, a book

My love for stories and story-telling carried over into college and my journalism career, where I wrote and later edited thousands of stories. But despite good intentions, much encouragement from readers and a strong desire, I’ve never put together those stories.
Until now.

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Proving your slip and fall case

Slip and fall accidents happen under various preventable conditions, such as uneven pavement, unmarked steps, loose floor mats, potholes, damaged tiles, or objects left on the floor.

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