A non-compete agreement is a bit like a time capsule. It’s agreed to on the day an employee is hired, and it often isn’t revisited until years later when the employee moves on to a new opportunity.
Pete Wasson, who has served as editor of the Ashland Daily Press for the past six years, is stepping down from the newspaper. His last day will be Friday, March 29, he announced March 1 in a farewell column.
During his tenure, he served as the Ashland County media coordinator for the Wisconsin Court System, facilitating media access to the state's circuit courts, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Before joining Adams Publishing Group, Wasson served as local news editor and assistant managing editor at the Wausau Daily Herald.
The House of Bogini – open just over a year at 152 Center St., Lake Geneva – is a small space with big ambitions. It’s unique. Like its owner, the irrepressible Sasha Butinas.
With last year’s enactment of historic state legislation, most Wisconsin municipalities are receiving their first substantial increase in a generation in their main source of state aid, shared revenue.
Lawmakers spent more time in the Capitol than they did two years ago as per diems were up in 2023 compared to the last time they hammered out a budget, according to records from the Senate and Assembly chief clerks’ offices.
For the 18th straight year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is recognizing outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government through its Openness in Government awards, or Opees.
His name was Billy and he lived across the street from our family in the Milwaukee suburb of Hales Corners.
Ramon De Vere “Ray” Hansen, former owner of the Waushara Argus, died on Feb. 11, at Good Samaritan Center, Olathe, Kansas. He was 97.
Following his discharge from the U.S. Navy in June 1946, he attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, graduating with honors in 1949. Hansen purchased the Waushara Argus in Wautoma, in October 1959, selling the newspaper in 1964 before moving to Kansas and marrying Donna Delight Toepper the following year. Throughout their 56-year marriage, the couple owned community newspapers in Kansas, Arkansas and New York.
WNA members are encouraged to write and share editorials, stories and columns about the importance of openness to your community.
The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights don’t explicitly mention parental rights, but the U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged that parents have a protected right to independently make decisions about their children’s religious upbringing.
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