Statistically speaking, the roads in Scotland are much safer than in Wisconsin. But it didn’t quite feel that way for Chris Hardie and his wife during a recent trip abroad.
Asked if he would consider someone for the post who believes the last presidential election was fraudulent, Vos said he wants his new appointee to concentrate on a “fair election in 2022” who’s not going to “focus on 2020 and backward.”
Cameras in the courtroom can be helpful in promoting trust and confidence in the judicial process, writes Dan Shelley of Radio Television Digital News Association in the most recent “Your Right to Know” column from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. The column, which aims to promote open government, is available for republication.
Some of your most important life goals may focus on your family and money, including saving enough money for your children’s college and for your own retirement.
Mark Lewis, publisher and president for the Wisconn Valley Media Group, has been promoted to president of the Tulsa World Media Group. Lewis has served as publisher of The Times since 2009 and, following Lee Enterprises' acquisition of United Communications Corporation in 2019, his role of publisher was extended to the Kenosha News and Lake Geneva Regional News.
Stephanie Jones, editor of the Regional News and former editor of The Times, will oversee news as the southeastern Wisconsin regional editor. She will work directly with Adam Rogan, news editor of The Times, and John Sloca, news editor of the Kenosha News.
Alisyn Amant, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the Wisconsin Media Group team and will cover community news for The Oregon Observer.
A Baraboo native, Amant and earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at UW-Madison, she covered film and TV for The Daily Cardinal student newspaper and volunteered as a reporter for the Goodman Community Center, writing for the Eastside News. She also has spent time reporting for the Tomahawk Leader.
John "Jack" Knowles, former owner of the Hillsboro Sentry-Enterprise, died May1, 2022, following a battle with vascular dementia. He was 85.
Knowles spent the first 30 years of his journalism career at the Chicago Tribune, starting as a copy boy at 18 years old and working up to editor of the foreign news desk. He left the newspaper in 1989, moving his young family to a small farming community in Wisconsin and purchasing the Sentry-Enterprise. Knowles sold the newspaper to Morris Newspaper Corporation of Wisconsin in 2004.
Paula Kay (Davel) Fredrickson, a longtime writer for The Dodgeville Chronicle, died on May 15, 2022, following a brief illness. She was 76.
After studying journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she was hired by the Blanchardville Chamber of Commerce to write stories about local businesses. She began her 38-year newspaper career with the Blanchardville Blade-Atlas, and went on to work for The Dodgeville Chronicle, The (Mineral Point) Democrat-Tribune, and the Pecatonica Valley Leader.
Thomas Walter Dorman, a former newspaper reporter, sportswriter and photographer, died on Sunday, May 15, 2022. He was 70. He died doing what he loved and "was out photographing the full lunar eclipse when his coronary heart stopped," according to his obituary.
He discovered his love of photography through working in community newspapers and never went anywhere without a camera. Dorman considered himself a "street photographer," taking pictures of everyday people and events.
Two new Report for America corps members have joined Wisconsin Watch, the nonprofit news organization has announced. They will worked to increase coverage of statewide threats to democracy and environmental and agricultural issues in the Mississippi River Basin.
Jacob Resneck, who previously worked in Juneau, Alaska as an editor and reporter for the nonprofit public media consortium CoastAlaska, will cover democracy-related issues, initially with an emphasis on rights in the workplace. Bennet Goldstein, who comes to Wisconsin Watch from the Omaha World Herald in Nebraska and daily papers in Iowa, including the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, will staff the Mississippi River Ag & Water Desk.
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