Justices clashed publicly over rules changes and firing top administrator, but new records highlight key conflict over how quickly court business should move.
Rates of chronically absent students continued to increase in Wisconsin schools in the 2021-22 school year, with the reported data rising even more sharply than during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sara Zimmerman, a former lifestyle/entertainment reporter for the Oshkosh Northwestern and (Appleton) Post-Crescent, has released a new novel.
"Every Dark Shadow," is a young adult/adult crossover fantasy set across parallel versions of New York in the 1800s. It was released under the pen name Sara Zimm. Zimmerman earned her journalism degree in 2005 from UW-Oshkosh, where she wrote for the student newspaper The Advance-Titan. She worked as a reporter for Gannett from 2005 to 2008, before shifting to a career in marketing and communications. She resides in Appleton with her husband and son.
Meg Kissinger, whose reporting on the broken Milwaukee County mental health care system led to public policy changes, has told the story of her own family's mental health crises in her new book "While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.
Through interviewing her surviving siblings; digging through diaries and letters, public and medical records; and even tracking down a babysitter from decades ago, Kissinger pieces together the portrait of a clan that's simultaneously loving and troubled, writes Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Joseph Peine, who recently earned his degree as a non-traditional student from the University of Minnesota's Hubbard School of Journalism, has joined the Pierce County Reporter in Prescott as a sports reporter.
A native of Hastings, Minn., he moved at the age of 12 to Prescott, which is where he graduated from high school. He went on to earn a degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota before pursuing careers as an airline pilot and real estate agent. He recently returned to school at the age of 35 to pursue his dream of being a reporter.
Oconomowoc native Andy Fisher has been named general manager of the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, effective Oct. 1, the newspapers have announced. He is vice president of sales for Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota and will continue in that position.
Fisher, who has worked for Gannett for five years, is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee and a the WNA Board of Directors.
If finalized, the rule would require more thorough abatement and cleaning at lead-tainted homes and child care facilities.
There was the high-spending, high-stakes battle in the spring election for a state Supreme Court seat to determine the philosophical balance of the high court.
The Milwaukee Health Department faces lead enforcement challenges as ranks of out-of-state landlords grow.
‘We have to do something,’ a Milwaukee Health Department official says as the city rolls out a new approach to removing lead from older rentals.
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