Tom Ackerman, who has spent the last year-and-a-half writing, editing, and taking photos for newspapers in Montana, has been named editor of the Jefferson County Daily Union.
Originally from the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, Ackerman most recently served as editor of the Big Horn County News in Hardin, Montana, which is owned by Adams Publishing Group — the Daily Union's parent company.
Carly Davis, who earned her bachelor's degree in May from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, has joined Adams Publishing Group.
In college, Davis studied art, creative writing and English and served as managing editor of the Augustana Observer, the student paper, and editor-in-chief of SAGA Art & Literary Magazine. She first got her start in journalism at Milton High School, where she wrote for the student paper from 2015 to 2019.
Rose Signe Bergh, of Buffalo City, died on April 29. She was 97.
In 1951, she moved to Ellsworth, where she worked as a linotype operator at the Beldenville Reporter. She would later do similar work for the Durand Courier, the Rochester (Minn.) Weekly and Fields Printing.
James F. Scotton, a longtime Wisconsin journalist and teacher, died on May 28, in Bayside. He was 91.
A native of Boston, Scotton earned a bachelor's degree in literature from Boston University and a master's degree in political science and Ph.D. in mass Communication from UW-Madison, where he was a teaching assistant. He then worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Wisconsin, including The Capital Times in Madison and The Associated Press, before becoming a college professor. He spent 37 years at Marquette University, where he was Dean, department chair and a faculty member, before retiring in 2015.
Over the last decade, laws regarding recreational marijuana possession and consumption have changed drastically nationwide.
Recent Wisconsin Policy Forum research examined a critical if overlooked local government service: sanitary and stormwater sewers, and the mounting costs to operate them.
Seid Husic, a recent graduate of Ripon College, has joined The Green Laker on a full time basis, the Ripon Commonwealth Press has announced. The Green Laker is the newspaper's biweekly summertime publication.
Born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husic is the first member of his family to graduate from college, he wrote in an introductory column. His passion for journalism developed after taking a journalism course taught by Ian Stepleton, former editor of the Commonwealth Press.
Wisconsin lets public schools reject applications of students with disabilities who seek transfers across district lines — a form of exclusion courts have upheld.
Mary Beth Murphy, a longtime Milwaukee journalist, died May 26 of metastatic breast cancer at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was 78.
Murphy joined the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1969. She first covered women’s issues, then the Milwaukee County Juvenile Court System and finally religion — a beat that she would transform during her tenure. She interviewed popes, archbishops, priests, parishioners, and victims of sexual assaults by priests and other clerics. In 2003, she was inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame.
Many taxpayer-funded ‘choice’ schools in Wisconsin have anti-LGBTQ+ policies, often justified by Christian beliefs. And there’s little the state can do about it.
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