Drinking and boating: What you need to know
Jun. 29, 2022
For many people, summer in Wisconsin goes hand in hand with being out on the water, and alcohol is often involved.
For many people, summer in Wisconsin goes hand in hand with being out on the water, and alcohol is often involved.
In his latest "Ad-Libs" column, veteran sales trainer John Foust writes about one of the most important lessons his dad taught him — think before taking action.
The lesson is one that pays dividends in the sales industry, he writes.
The Jan. 6 congressional hearings revealed a connection between Sen. Ron Johnson’s office and the failed effort to advance a slate of fake electors to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation honored the work of newspapers across the state during the WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest Awards Banquet on Friday, June 24, at The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club in downtown Madison, Wis.
Recipients of 2021 Newspaper of the Year Awards were Publisher Todd Colling and the EagleHerald, Marinette, (Daily Division) and Publisher John Ingebritsen and The Monroe Times (Weekly Division).
In 2021, Wisconsin’s combined state and local governments counted just less than 277,800 full-time equivalent employees, the fewest relative to the state’s population in at least two decades.
An economist with UW-Madison argues the state should focus more on developing “homegrown” businesses rather than recruiting companies to move to Wisconsin.
Jason Kreul, who previously worked for the Wisconsin State Journal reporter, has been named the editor of the Fenimore Times.
A native of Fennimore and longtime resident of Boscobel, Kreul is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Prior to joining the Times, Kreul worked as a writer for the State Journal in the early 2000s and, then, in the food industry before returning to journalism.
Charlie Friederich, a longtime journalist for The Milwaukee Journal, died May 28, in Monroe. He was 87.
After earning his master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill, he began his journalism career as a reporter for the Binghamton (New York) Press. He moved to Wisconsin in 1961 to join The Milwaukee Journal, where he worked for almost 30 years. Friederich retired from The Journal in 1990.
Stuart Carlson, a longtime Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political cartoonist, died Friday, June 10, at age 66.
Carlson, a West Bend native who earned an arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, served as a cartoonist for The Milwaukee Sentinel and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1983 to 2008. He was first hired by the Milwaukee Sentinel as a lifestyle reporter in the features department.
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