Wisconsin tells voters to request ballots now in push to improve mail-in voting
Sep. 2, 2020
Wisconsin will send absentee ballot applications to 2.6 million voters to help ensure their mail-in votes are counted in November
Wisconsin will send absentee ballot applications to 2.6 million voters to help ensure their mail-in votes are counted in November
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that many of our jobs can be done digitally and remotely. The same should be true of accessing government records, reporter and radio producer Steven Potter writes.
In the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s most recent “Your Right to Know” column, Potter urges government agencies to serve the public interest by paying attention to the lessons we’ve learned in the past several months.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ call for a task force to address racial disparity and public safety falls far short of what’s needed in the wake of civil unrest after Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake, say Capitol Democrats who question the effectiveness of such panels.
Photos from the aftermath of a recent massive storm that flattened cornfields across Iowa and into Illinois and Indiana took me back 22 years.
Reading text aloud performs two basic yet critical analytical and diagnostic functions — it quickly shows if the prose is smooth, flows well and is pleasing to the eye and ear and where the clunks in copy are located; also, it reveals whether information is being presented in a logical, clear and meaningful progression, writes veteran journalist Bart Pfankuch.
It’s perhaps the best way for a writer or editor to check their work for flow, accuracy, clarity and meaning.
My wife’s bumper crop of veggies gave me a great idea: Why don’t I bread them with a tempura batter and deep-fry them? Problem solved!
A new poll question about which issue is most important to voters in the 2020 election is now available to be used by WNA members.
Results from our previous poll question about Kamala Harris’ impact on voting decisions also are available. Out of 328 respondents, 38% said it had no impact on their decision. Of the remaining voters, 30% said it made them more likely to vote for Joe Biden and 26% said it made them more likely to vote for Donald Trump.
Readers visiting WNA member websites from Aug. 13 to Aug. 25 were asked how Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate would influence their voting decision. Here are the results.
There are other approaches to advertising creativity, but catalogs excel when it comes to descriptions of product features and benefits, writes veteran sales trainer John Foust.
In his latest installment of “Ad-Libs,” Foust points to some standout examples from L.L. Bean catalogs.
Longtime Wisconsin journalist Dian Shirley Page died Friday, Aug. 14. She was 85.
Page started her newspaper career at the Mankato Free Press, before moving on to serve as women’s editor for the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram and as a reporter and copy editor for the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. In 1970, she joined the staff of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, where she would remain until her retirement in 1998.
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