Gallagher raises profile on China, defense issues
May. 11, 2023
Thirty-nine-year-old U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher has only been in
Congress since 2017.
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Thirty-nine-year-old U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher has only been in
Congress since 2017.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Wisconsin’s state constitution also affirms the right to bear arms for self-defense, defense of the state, hunting, and sport shooting.
While still passing in sizable numbers in the April 2023 election, local ballot referenda to allow school districts to exceed state property tax limits passed at the lowest rate since 2010. The decline comes after years in which such measures were passed in record numbers and amounts.
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I have a confession to make that will not shock long time readers of this column or anyone who knows me.
As the members of the state Joint Finance Committee work on the 2023-25 state budget, they’ve been asked to consider a tax credit that will
Students from 13 high schools across the state will compete in the Wisconsin Civics Games state finals — presented by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation — on Friday, May 12, in Madison.
The state finals are open to the public, and media outlets are encouraged to attend. Welcoming remarks will begin at 9 a.m. in Room 411 South. Speakers include Gov. Tony Evers, Attorney General Josh Kaul, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Patience D. Roggensack and UW System President Jay O. Rothman. The Games, which will be broadcast on WisconsinEye, are expected to conclude at approximately 3 p.m.
In a staffing reorganization that aims to put more reporters in the community to cover issues of local importance, APG publications across southern Wisconsin are moving veteran staff members who had been in managerial roles into senior reporting roles, the company has announced.
As part of the restructuring, Karyn Saemann, editor of The Gazette, will also serve as regional editor for APG-Southern Wisconsin, directing editorial operations for the groups five additional daily publications and its nine weekly print and digital publications. Other editors who assumed new leadership roles with APG-Southern Wisconsin include Madeline Westberg, Brian O’Connor and Tim Seeman.
Paul Gaier, who worked for two decades as an advertising director and publisher at several Illinois newspapers, has joined Adams Publishing Group as regional president for Northern Wisconsin.
Gaier began his newspaper career in Chippewa Falls, where his father was publisher, before leaving to attend college at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. Most recently, he served as general manager of Fond du Lac-based Action Printing since 2020. Prior to that role, he was regional vice president for a group of Illinois newspapers that included the Rockford Register Star and the (Peoria) Journal Star.
John Leacock, who started his career in 1994 at a Wisconsin newspaper, has been named interim business editor for the Albuquerque Journal, where he has served as a copy editor since October.
A native of Barbados, Leacock moved to Wisconsin after graduating from Columbia College in New York. He worked as an editor for Point Publications in Stevens Point and as a reporter for the Central Wisconsin Radio Network and Wisconsin Public Radio. In 1999, he joined the Wisconsin State Journal as a copy editor. He went on to serve as interim national foreign editor and assistant news editor before joining the Florida Times-Union, where he worked as a metro night editor and copy editor.
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