On May 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to create a rules process to ensure redistricting lawsuits go straight to the justices for consideration.
Black and African-American college graduates owe around $25,000 more in student loan debt on average than their white counterparts.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Office of Open Government last week issued an advisory regarding the applicability of the state’s public records laws under Marsy’s Law.
The advisory instructs records custodians to continue applying the balancing test when responding to requests for records that contain information about crime victims, but notes the recent constitutional amendment strengthens the public policy interest in protecting victims’ rights.
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Yvonne (Gulligan) Pedersen, who with her husband was a co-owner of the Juneau County Star-Times in Mauston, died Wednesday, April 28, in Madison. She was 96.
In 1962, Yvonne and her former husband, Kenneth “Kenny” Bogert, moved to Mauston, where the couple, along with Larry Arnold, purchased the Mauston Star and Juneau County Chronicle. The newspapers were later merged with Arnold’s New Lisbon Times-Argus to form the Juneau County Star-Times.
Sara Rae Lancaster has been named social media editor for the Peninsula Pulse, the Baileys Harbor newspaper announced Friday.
Lancaster joined the staff full-time May 3 after having served as editor for the newspaper’s 2021 edition of Door Wedding. In addition to social media, her duties include feature writing for the Pulse and Door County Living.
Susan Sorenson, who worked many years for Community Newspapers, Inc., died Monday, May 10, in Waukesha. She was 75.
Sorenson served as a reporter and editor for Community Newspapers, which at one time published nearly two dozen weekly newspapers in the suburban Milwaukee area. The group of papers, many of which have since merged, is currently known as the Now News Group.
Virginia Lane Ryan, who wrote a local history series for the (Grantsburg) Burnett County Sentinel, died Wednesday, May 5, in Grantsburg. She was 89.
Ryan, who enrolled at UW-Superior at age 55 and went on to earn her bachelor's degree in biology, served as a historical speaker at local schools and wrote the “Soderbeck Ferry Tales” local history series, for the Sentinel. In both, Ryan shared her knowledge of family and local history.
Clint Wolf, who joined the Beloit Daily News in 1990 as AP wire editor and has served as news editor for the past 20 years, has been named editor of the newspaper.
Wolf takes over the role following the retirement of Sid Schwartz, who had served as editor of the Daily News since November. Prior to Schwartz, the position had been held for more than 40 years by Bill Barth, a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
A spring rainstorm provided much-needed moisture to the Hardie farm and brought back memories of planting corn with his fathefor Chris Hardie
As state and local governments mull appropriate uses for federal funds aimed at COVID-19 relief, they would be well-served to consider uses that avoid creating future budget challenges.
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