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Bennett to lead Newspaper Association Managers

Aug. 6, 2021

Beth Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers today during the group’s 98th annual conference in Madison. Bennett has led the WNA since 2010 and previously served as the Illinois Press Association’s director of government relations. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the National Newspaper Association and is a past president of TEMPO Madison.

Former Press-Gazette magazine editor Amelia Compton Wolff joins Town Square

Aug. 6, 2021

Amelia Compton Wolff, former magazine editor for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, has been named marketing manager of Town Square Community Center in Green Lake, the Ripon Commonwealth Press reports.

Compton Wolff joined Town Square on July 19 after serving as senior editor of Fox Cities Magazine in Appleton for the previous seven years. Prior to that role, she spent nearly three years at the Press-Gazette. While in Green Bay, Compton Wolff was editor of YOU Magazine and all of the newspaper’s special sections.

Could ‘baby bonds’ close Wisconsin’s racial wealth gap?

Aug. 5, 2021

Setting aside government money at birth for all children — sometimes referred to as “baby bonds” — has been tried both inside and outside of the United States, and even in Wisconsin. Not everyone is a fan.

What’s driving property tax increases in Wisconsin?

Aug. 4, 2021

After a decade of modest increases, property taxes in Wisconsin have risen more rapidly over the past two years. Factors contributing to the growth include voter-approved school referenda, increases in state revenue limits on schools, and greater levies by municipalities and counties to make debt payments.

Longtime sports journalist Tom Miller retires from The Gazette

Aug. 2, 2021

Tom Miller, a longtime sports columnist, reporter and page designer, has retired from The (Janesville) Gazette following a career spanning more than 40 years in newspapers.

Miller began his career in 1979 at the Marinette Eagle-Star before joining The Gazette sports staff in 1986. For his first two decades with the newspaper, he primarily covered local high school sports, as well as occasional college and professional sporting events. During the final chapter of his career, he served as a page designer.

Tussle over unemployment hints at 2022 election-year issue

Aug. 2, 2021

The post-budget summer at the Capitol has featured Republican moves to knock Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on unemployment issues.

Judge’s rigorous collection of court-ordered debt atypical in Wisconsin — even in his own county

Aug. 2, 2021

Outagamie County Circuit Judge Vincent Biskupic has held dozens of review hearings stretching over years to push defendants to pay overdue court costs

Woodchuck war heats up again

Aug. 1, 2021

If my long-running battle against woodchucks were a Hollywood sequel, I think we’d be at “Groundhog Strikes Again Chapter XXIV.”

Garrett: American K-12 education isn’t nearly as good as we think it is

Aug. 1, 2021

Richard W. Garrett, an independent author and researcher on educational reform, argues the performance of the United States’ K-12 public school system is so poor that nothing less than a major overhaul will fix its problems.

WCIJ, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service receive $1.4 million grant

Jul. 30, 2021

The American Journalism Project has awarded a $1.4 million grant to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service to be distributed over three years, WCIJ announced Friday.

The grant is intended to support the efforts by WCIJ and NNS to reshape local news in Milwaukee and across the state and will help them support additional staff positions. The two nonprofits have partnered since spring 2020 on the News414 project, which uses text messages, social media and other tools to provide important news to underserved audiences in the Milwaukee area.