As local officials throughout Wisconsin ramp up work on annual budgets for their communities, they face the largest gap on record between costs they incur providing services to state facilities and the reimbursement they receive from the state for these services.
Joe Biden and the groups supporting him this fall have dominated the media war in Wisconsin since the April primary and are on pace to spend $21.5 million more than President Trump and his supporters through Election Day.
As it begins to move into new downtown offices, the Beloit Daily News has donated materials from its archives to the Beloit Historical Society.
“As one of the oldest businesses in the region, tracing our roots to 1848, the newspaper had a treasure trove of historical materials,” Editor Bill Barth said in the Daily News story about the donations. “Preserving that past for scholarship and community use has been one of our prime motivators in planning for the move to new office space.”
On the evening of the next full moon, go to your back porch and admire the wonderful sight of our beautiful and gorgeous moon.
Joann E. Schram, who worked many years for the Lake Country Reporter in Hartland, died Sunday, Sept. 20. She was 81.
After moving to Hartland in 1965, Schram began working at the newspaper as a typesetter, continuing in the role until her retirement.
A new poll question about whether readers will continue watching the presidential debates is now available to be used by WNA members. Results from our previous poll question about how readers plan to vote are now available.
The polling platform has been made available to WNA members through a partnership with Polco to help Wisconsin newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
Readers visiting WNA member websites from Sept. 16 to 30 were asked whether they planned to vote in-person or by mail. Here are the results.
Two of the three justices from the Wisconsin state Supreme Court’s liberal wing asked pointed questions about a complaint brought by a conservative law firm asking for more than 100,000 voters to be removed from the state’s rolls.
The number of Wisconsin FoodShare recipients grew to 724,200 in August, its highest point yet this year and an increase of more than 120,000 people since March, when the COVID-19 crisis began in the U.S. The number of households enrolled in the program now totals 378,200, an increase of 66,000 (21%) over last year — reversing a longstanding trend of declining program usage since 2013.
Longtime southeastern Wisconsin journalist Pete Wicklund has been named managing editor of the Kenosha News, the newspaper announced Tuesday.
He replaces Bob Heisse, who was named executive editor of the River Valley Media Group. Wicklund has spent the last 21 years with The Journal Times. He started in the Burlington bureau and has gone on to serve as a police reporter, copy editor, photographer and most recently, assistant managing editor.
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