Lieutenant governor primaries on tap for next year
Sep. 13, 2021
The primary election for Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor is just under 11 months away. So far, no Democrats are making noise about getting into the race.
The primary election for Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor is just under 11 months away. So far, no Democrats are making noise about getting into the race.
Replacing all Milwaukee lead service lines would take 70 years at current pace. Meanwhile, Wisconsin home lead investigations rarely test water amid focus on paint
Total equalized property values in Wisconsin increased 6.8% in 2021, the largest one-year increase since 2006. The increase was buoyed by residential property values, which also saw their largest increase in that span. Residential property values statewide grew 7.8% in 2021, the biggest annual percentage increase since 2006.
Whether it was at Grandma’s or Aunt Sara’s, I’ve always loved hearing stories. So, it should be no surprise that I was drawn into a career of hearing them and telling them.
A new poll question asking whether readers support vaccine requirements in the workplace is available to be used by WNA members. Following the full FDA approval of the COVID-19 vaccine, we are asking the question in light of an increasing number of employers beginning to require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Poll questions are available through a WNA partnership with Polco aimed at helping newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights. WNA members who have signed up for an account can access their local version of the new question, as well as local poll results, on their dashboards. Those who have not signed up can do so here.
Eight plaintiffs receiving Social Security Disability Insurance payments say the state is illegally discriminating against them by banning them from jobless aid.
Robert Dye, who served as an editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel before joining the communications department of its parent company, died Monday, Sept. 3. He was 74.
A Missouri native, Dye attended Baylor University and started his career in Kansas City, Mo. According to his Milwaukee Journal Sentinel obituary, Dye was hired by the Sentinel while on a layover in the city during a trip to Canada for another job interview. He went on to serve as an assignment editor, assistant city editor and news systems editor for the Sentinel. He later served as vice president of corporate communications for the newspaper's parent company, Journal Communications, where he
Ann Meyer has joined the EagleHerald newsroom in Marinette as a staff writer, she announced Monday in a column.
Meyer, a veteran journalist who has spent much of her career in the Chicago area, will cover the city of Menominee, Mich., for the EagleHerald, as well as Menominee County.
This $300 a week in enhanced benefits has been a lifeline for many left jobless by COVID-19, but it has become the source of a hot partisan debate.
The WNA Foundation contest committee has voted to make several changes ahead of the 2021 Better Newspaper Contest, including the elimination of three daily categories and one daily circulation division.
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