The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group that works to protect access to public meetings and records, is now accepting nominations for its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees.
Nominations, along with supporting documentation, should be submitted by Friday, Feb. 10, to blueders@gmail.com.
Mary Ruth Schmutzler, former editor of the Deerfield Independent, died on Jan. 18 in Shawano, following a long illness. She was 73.
After graduating, she was named editor of the Deerfield Independent, and in January 1972, she wed Dean Schmutzler in Beaver Dam. In 1974, they moved to Green Bay, where she became the news editor for the Catholic Diocese newspaper The Spirit. The couple also later published the Northeast Wisconsin edition of the Builder/Architect magazine.
When the University of Wisconsin’s two-year colleges were absorbed by regional UW schools in bigger communities, critics worried about the state of higher education in small-town Wisconsin.
When is it wrong, or at least of little usefulness, to ask the people their opinions on public issues?
I have completed my quinquennial agricultural legal reporting duties with a week to spare.
Frederick "Fred" Herman Keller, a longtime reporter for the Sussex Sun, died Thursday, Jan. 12, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He was 91.
Keller worked as a reporter for the newspaper — now Northwest Now — for nearly 40 years. While at the newspaper, he covered city news and sporting events.
Last month, the WNA Foundation opened registration for the Wisconsin Civics Games. We've already had several schools sign up to participate, but we need members' help to reach a wider audience.
The deadline to register is Feb. 20, so the sooner you can spread the word, the better! We've compiled five ways newsrooms can help promote participation and foster civic engagement among Wisconsin youth.
We owe it to future generations to protection the freedoms provided by the First Amendment, writes Gibraltar High School senior Annalee Mize.
Without agreement, society turns dysfunctional, writes Ellen Zhang, a junior at Green Bay Southwest High School.
Jonah Vircks, a freshman at Loyal High School, makes a case for why the right to assembly is one of our most important important freedoms.
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