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.
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.
The post-budget summer at the Capitol has featured Republican moves to knock Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on unemployment issues.
Outagamie County Circuit Judge Vincent Biskupic has held dozens of review hearings stretching over years to push defendants to pay overdue court costs
If my long-running battle against woodchucks were a Hollywood sequel, I think we’d be at “Groundhog Strikes Again Chapter XXIV.”
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.
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.
After nearly three years as managing editor, Sarah Weihert is leaving the Lake Mills Leader. A Lake Mills native and UW-Whitewater graduate, Weihert had served as an education reporter for the Watertown Daily Times prior to joining the Leader. She departs to start a new job in public relations with the city of Fort Atkinson.
Taking over the managing editor role will be Amber Gerber. Another UW-Whitewater graduate, Gerber has served as editor for The Courier for the last two years. It was her second stint with the newspaper, having held the same role from August 2007 to October 2011. She's also held positions at the Sun Prairie Star, the McFarland Thistle and The (Cottage Grove/Monona) Herald-Independent.
Max Heath, one of the newspaper industry’s leading postal experts for decades, died Wednesday, July 28, in Louisville, Ky., the National Newspaper Association announced. He was 75 and had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke days earlier.
Heath, a longtime postal guru for NNA, was postal chair emeritus for the association and remained a consultant to the NNA Postal Committee. As a top postal expert, Heath advocated to preserve affordable mail delivery options for community newspapers and was a valuable resource for newspaper publishers in Wisconsin and across the country. In 2019, he was awarded the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's first-ever Distinguished Service Award for Contributions to Wisconsin Newspapers.
Empty advertising headlines that speak to no one in particular are ineffective and a waste of the advertiser's budget.
In his most recent "Ad Libs" column, veteran sales trainer John Foust provides a four-step formula that can help you generate more sales for your newspaper and for your advertisers. The end result will be a series of targeted and consistent messages, instead of the same watered-down ad over and over again, he writes.
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