The city’s past efforts to confront barriers for Black males fizzled due to a lack of coordination, metrics and resources, officials say. A new nonprofit with a trusted leader is stepping in.
Robert Berglund, former publisher of the (Loyal) Tribune Record Gleaner, member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame and a WNA past president, died on Saturday, Dec. 30. He was 93.
In 1969, he and his late wife, Florence, merged the Loyal Tribune, Spencer Record and Greenwood Gleaner into the Tribune Record Gleaner, which they operated until selling the business in 1998. Just weeks before his death, Berglund announced that after spending 56 years in the newspaper industry and writing 2,900 columns, he'd written his last "Over the Back Fence" column.
After falling in 2022 to its lowest level in more than a half century, the share of Wisconsinites’ incomes that they paid in state and local taxes effectively held steady last year.
The action by the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court was expected.
It’s the latest example of the Outagamie County judge stretching conventional bounds of sentencing authority
All journeys begin with a step. I thought about that as I ventured outside for the first time since my left hip was replaced eight days ago.
News Publishing Inc. has sold it’s group of 14 weekly newspapers to the company’s longtime chief financial officer, Tom Finger.
It’s another year, and all things seem filled with renewal and possibility. Except, sadly, the ongoing record of futility racked up by the super-secret cabal known only as Forecasters Anonymous.
Forum researchers churned out 54 reports and interactive data tools in 2023 that covered a wide variety of timely issues.
Last month, Wisconsin Watch extended an offer to all members of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association: If they suspect or uncover wrongdoing, corruption, incompetence, but don’t have the resources to investigate, the nonprofit newsroom will work to help them tell the story.
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