More than half of the state’s county Republican parties have formally called for a “cyber forensic audit” of the 2020 elections. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is using the same language as he expands the review headed by former Wisconsin Justice Michael Gableman. But the man leading the effort to get county parties on board with the call for an audit insists what Vos wants isn’t enough.
Typically, judges send defendants to jail or prison when their probation is revoked. But Biskupic instead effectively sentenced some defendants to open-ended arrangements by “staying” their sentences, pausing their jail term while they attended drug and alcohol treatment.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation on Friday honored 26 industry leaders during this year’s Memorial Pylon virtual ceremony. Those unable to join us for the live premiere can watch a replay of the ceremony below or on our YouTube channel.
The video features photos and biographies of the inductees along with memories shared by family, friends and former colleagues.
Emilie Heidemann, community and business editor for Wisconsin Media Group's suburban Madison publications, is leaving to join the Wisconsin State Journal. She succeeds former business and technology reporter Shelley Mesch, who left in May to join The Salt Lake Tribune.
Prior to her time with Wisconsin Media Group, Heidemann worked as a reporter and assistant editor for the Lodi Enterprise and Poynette Press. While earning her journalism degree from UW-Oshkosh, she also served as news editor of The Advance-Titan student newspaper and was awarded WNA Foundation internships with the Waushara Argus in Wautoma and The Brillion News.
Gannett Co. Inc., parent company of the Wausau Daily Herald, has sold the newspaper's longtime home at 800 Scott St.
The Daily Herald offices had been located in the building since 1958. The newspaper will lease space in the building, which it reports was sold to Bauer's Mega Storage, a Wausau-area company. With the sale, Gannett no longer owns any of the buildings that for decades had housed its central Wisconsin newspapers.
Bit by bit, the smaller homestead farms disappear a little more each year as houses and buildings are torn down or left to decay. But if you look closely while driving through farm country you can still spot one legacy of farming that still exists in many places — the treasure troves that some may call junkyards.
Education degrees earned at colleges and universities in southeastern Wisconsin declined from 2011 to 2019, raising the question of whether there is a sufficient supply of new K-12 teachers to meet the region’s teacher workforce needs.
When the rest of the world went virtual during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural Wisconsin went dark. In an effort to close those internet-access gaps, more money is going toward broadband expansion in Wisconsin than ever before.
Of more than 1,000 officers ousted in the past five years, some returned to police work after allegations including sexual harassment and drunken fights
Jack Miller has joined Wisconsin Media Group as a sports and community reporter in the suburban Madison area. He succeeds Benjamin Pierce, who left to join the Trempealeau County Times in Whitehall.
A Janesville native, Miller most recently served as sports editor for the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson. Prior to that role, he worked as a sports reporter for the Daily Union and served as sports editor of the Milton Courier. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from UW-Whitewater, where he served as a sports writer and assistant sports editor for the Royal Purple student newspaper.
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