The stories of bridges
Sep. 6, 2022
I’ve always been fascinated with bridges, ever since as a youngster our family drove across the Mackinac Bridge for the first time.
I’ve always been fascinated with bridges, ever since as a youngster our family drove across the Mackinac Bridge for the first time.
Weekly Fiscal Facts are provided to Wisconsin Newspaper Association members by the Wisconsin Policy Forum, the state’s leading resource for nonpartisan state and local government research
Wisconsin’s open records law is most often used by requesters seeking to obtain records from a government agency. But occasionally it works in reverse, allowing someone to block the release of records to a requester, writes Christa Westerberg, a partner at the Pines Bach law firm in Madison and vice president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, in the group's latest "Your Right to Know" column.
You have heard the campaign slogans in television commercials and read them so many times on billboards that the words have become cliché. “Drive sober or get pulled over!” “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.” “Over the limit. Under arrest.”
While GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels won’t take PAC contributions, running mate Roger Roth isn’t placing any similar restrictions on his fundraising.
Dr. Barbara Knox left Wisconsin and Alaska amid allegations of workplace bullying and wrongful diagnoses of child abuse; she now practices in Florida.
Even in a divisive world that will become even more so between now and the November election, there’s always room for a little kindness.
Longtime journalist Kent Tempus has retired from the Oconto County Reporter after 11 years with the newspaper, he announced in a farewell column published Wednesday.
Tempus' journalism career spanned 40 years and three states. Prior to joining the Reporter, where he served as editor from 2011 to 2018, he was editor of the Shawano Leader from 1995 to 2010. He attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, and Iowa State University, located in Ames, majoring in journalism and mass communications.
Nicole Eithun, a 2022 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in communication, is joining the (Fort Atkinson) Daily Jefferson County Union and the Watertown Daily Times as a reporter, the newspapers have announced.
Eithun, a native of Beloit who lives in Whitewater, grew up with a love of photography and the stories behind photographs.
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