WNA Foundation to honor 10 during Memorial Pylon ceremony
Jul. 24, 2018
The WNA Foundation will honor 10 industry leaders during this year’s Memorial Pylon ceremony Aug. 17 in Eagle River, Wis.
The WNA Foundation will honor 10 industry leaders during this year’s Memorial Pylon ceremony Aug. 17 in Eagle River, Wis.
The Milwaukee Press Club announced Monday the journalists who will be inducted into the club’s Media Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Of the eight inductees, four worked at Milwaukee newspapers. They include Elizabeth (Betsy) Brenner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Marilyn Krause, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Stuart Wilk, Milwaukee Sentinel & Dallas Morning News; and Nathan Conyers, (deceased), Milwaukee Times.
Nash Weiss, a 21-year-old incoming senior at UW-Madison, is serving as interim editor of his local weekly newspaper, the Mondovi Herald-News.
Pete Wasson, longtime reporter and editor at the Wausau Daily Herald, has been named editor of the Ashland Daily Press. He succeeds Larry Servinsky.
Records show that a candidate running for Outagamie County sheriff failed a background check earlier this year after he applied for a local police chief job, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reported.
Records show that the contractor that struck a gas line in Sun Prairie, causing a massive explosion, was not registered to do business in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
A coalition of government transparency advocates have asked Wisconsin appeals court judges to reject a state lawmaker’s argument that he isn’t required to provide records electronically. Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Vandermeuse’s response to the coalition argued that Lueders’ request for the records “in electronic form, as an email folder or on a flash drive or CD” was “ambiguous” and not specifically for the files in native format.
She also wrote that the claim records should be “substantially as good” as the original isn’t the proper standard, because it’s not found in state statutes. It originates from the Attorney General’s Compliance Guide and an Executive Order by Gov. Scott Walker — sources that “merely offer guidance.”
Attorney General Brad Schimel has hired a consultant to identify ways to speed up evidence testing at Wisconsin crime labs, as criticism mounts over delays, the Associated Press reported. A DOJ report obtained by the AP through an open records request shows turnaround times for the testing of DNA, guns, tool marks and drug compositions have grown dramatically since Schimel took office in January 2015.
The Legislative Council Study Committee on the Use of Police Body Cameras will meet at 10 a.m. July 26 in Room 411 South of the State Capitol in Madison.
With the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate race only months away, Republicans are touting their fundraising advantage over Democrats. This edition of The Capitol Report follows the money leading up to the midterms.
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