A little more than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin had lost more than 150,000 jobs from the same point a year earlier. Yet there are signs that this sizable blow to employment in Wisconsin was less severe than in neighboring states and the nation as a whole.
A new poll question about which large summer events readers plan to attend is available to be used by WNA members. We are asking the question as many annual summer events return amid the reduction of pandemic safety measures such as masks, distancing and capacity limits.
Poll questions are available through a WNA partnership with Polco aimed at helping newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
A sure sign of spring is yellow in the green — the annual appearance of the ubiquitous dandelion. You may hate how it looks in your lawn, but the dandelion does have its benefits.
Publisher Paul Fanlund on Monday announced several staffing changes at The Cap Times.
After two years as opinion editor, Jessie Opoien is moving back to a reporting role, joining Briana Reilly in covering the Wisconsin State Capitol. Taking over as opinion editor will be Steven Elbow, who has been a reporter with The Cap Times since 1999.
In additional moves, Fanlund noted that higher education reporter Yvonne Kim has left the newspaper to move out of state. As they look to fill her position, The Cap Times newsroom will be bolstered by two interns this summer, Cam Cieszki and Addison Lathers, both UW students.
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.
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