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Best Sports Bars to Watch The Big Game

It’s Super Bowl Season, which means it’s also sports bar season! We’re letting you in on some of the best and busiest sports bars to watch the big game across the state.

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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%. 

Kurt Krueger retires after 45-year career

Kurt Krueger, a longtime editor and current publisher of the Vilas County News-Review and The Three Lake News, retired Dec. 31, 2024 after serving the two newspapers and their respective communities for more than four decades.

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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