The column is produced by the husband and wife team of Bill Barth and Stephanie Klett. Bill is the former Editor of the Beloit Daily News, and a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame. Stephanie is the President and CEO of Visit Lake Geneva, and the former Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.
Legal sales of cigarettes have plummeted in recent years, meaning Wisconsin state government is receiving much less in revenue from cigarette taxes.
An energy intensive Bitcoin mining operation in Park Falls can’t replace a once vibrant paper mill, but it has created new conflicts and a cautionary tale
The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) is accepting entries for its annual Golden Quill editorial writing contest. The deadline to enter is Feb. 1.
Entries must have been published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022. All non-daily newspapers are eligible to enter. Online-only newspapers must be considered community news sites. Cost is $10 per entry for ISWNE members, $15 per entry for non-members and $5 per entry for students.
I don’t play the lottery and don’t frequent casinos, but if I were a betting man, I’d lay odds that sometime in the next few years I will be involved in a deer-vehicle collision.
William Burl Blankenburg, professor emeritus of the UW-Madison School of Journalism, died on Jan. 1, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 90.
In 1968, Blankenburg moved to Madison to accept a teaching position at UW. In his nearly 30-year academic career, he instructed thousands of undergraduate journalism students, advised countless master's and Ph.D. candidates, and published original research and books in the field of newspaper economics and the societal effects of mass media.
Wisconsin’s state and local tax burden fell again in 2022 to its lowest level on record, due to a $1 billion-a-year income tax cut, tight limits on property taxes, and strong growth in residents’ incomes.
If your application for Social Security Benefits or Supplemental Security Income was denied, you have the right to appeal through the hearing process.
It’s always with a mixture of sadness and hope when we move past the holiday season and face the bleakness of January.
Wisconsin should regionalize mental health crisis services, experts say. A legislative stalemate has stalled funding.
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