Earning extra credit
Jul. 27, 2023
The number of Wisconsin high school students earning college credit through dual enrollment programs at public universities and technical colleges has more than doubled in the past decade.
The number of Wisconsin high school students earning college credit through dual enrollment programs at public universities and technical colleges has more than doubled in the past decade.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association is accepting nominations for the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame through Tuesday, Sept. 5.
The award, created in 2022, highlights the importance of an engaged citizenry in a democracy by recognizing individuals whose actions have helped foster government transparency and protect the public’s right to know.
I woke this morning to a heavy blanket of fog and mist shrouding the valley. Soon it will burn off as we move into the heat of the day.
Some Democrats in the Legislature voted for it, and the former state schools superintendent and current Dem governor, Tony Evers, signed it.
Drawing upon an unprecedented state surplus of nearly $7 billion, Wisconsin’s new state budget features a combination that might otherwise have seemed impossible
Social media and deceptive actors are allowing falsehood to spread even faster than the truth, but there are ways to inoculate yourself from information disorder.
Imagine that when you go to work tomorrow, you learn that your employer is knowingly breaking the law. It’s something serious and you believe your employer may be causing real harm.
There is nothing predictable about memories, which are sometimes as harsh as the strike of the hammer on the anvil and the next moment as soft as puffy clouds in the blue summer sky.
Kevin Passon, a longtime Wisconsin journalist and Shawano native, has been named editor-in-chief for NEW Media, a newspaper group that includes the Shawano Leader, Oconto County Times Herald and Wittenberg Enterprise and Birnamwood News. Most recently, Passon served as editor of the Antigo Journal, a position he'd held since 2020.
Passon succeeds interim editor, Warren Bluhm, who has held the position since March 2021. Bluhm will return to his previous duties as news editor, which includes coverage of Oconto County.
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