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Policy Forum identifies 5 keys to the next state budget

Mar. 15, 2023

As state lawmakers begin deliberations on Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal for the 2023-25 state budget, a record projected surplus of $8.8 billion hands them an historic opportunity to make generational progress on some of the state’s most pressing policy challenges.

In a new state budget brief released by the Wisconsin Policy Forum, the statewide policy research organization identifies five keys it expects will be critical to the state’s future fiscal outlook, its economy, and the quality of life of its citizens.

Legal considerations before starting a small business

Mar. 14, 2023

As the U.S. economy transitions to slower growth, some entrepreneurial Wisconsinites who were laid off may decide to start their own business.

Ad-libs: The power of enthusiasm

Mar. 13, 2023

There’s a story about a professor of literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As he approached retirement, someone from the newspaper interviewed him.

‘There’s no transparency’: Secretive ‘pocket veto’ scuttles Wisconsin projects

Mar. 13, 2023

The Joint Finance Committee has long allowed members to anonymously block projects, but some want to rein in its dubious practice of not holding hearings

Officially sick of winter

Mar. 12, 2023

Being Wisconsin born and raised on a farm, I can honestly say that I’ve dealt with much of the worst that winter can offer.

Wisconsin Watch’s Mario Koran named New York Times local investigations fellow

Mar. 12, 2023

The New York Times has named Mario Koran, an award-winning Wisconsin Watch investigative journalist, to its inaugural class of the Local Investigations Fellowship, a program that gives journalists the opportunity to produce signature investigative work focused on their state or region that will be published by The Times and made available for free for co-publication by local newsrooms. Koran’s project focuses on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

Interested applicants can apply to the Local Investigations Fellowship here.

Zane Zander, former owner of The Brillion News, dies at 88

Mar. 11, 2023

Zane C. Zander, age 88, of Brillion, passed away on Thursday afternoon, March 9, 2023, following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Former national political reporter Ted Knap dies at 102

Mar. 10, 2023

Longtime national political reporter Ted Knap died on Feb. 26. He was 102. During his career, he covered five presidents in Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Knap graduated from Marquette University in 1940 with a degree in journalism. Following graduation he worked for the Waukesha Daily Freeman as a reporter and city editor for six years. In 1950, he joined the Indianapolis Times as a city desk reporter, later becoming assistant editor and, eventually, city editor of the newspaper. He became the Washington correspondent for the Times, as well as the Evansville (Ind.) Press, around 1963.

Wisconsin native Kate Franco named executive editor of The Desert Sun

Mar. 10, 2023

Former Wisconsin journalist Kate Franco has been named executive editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Arizona, where she has worked for the last 23 years, the newspaper announced Monday.

A native of the Milwaukee area, Franco earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from UW-Madison before serving as an editor at newspapers in La Crosse, Wis.; Winona, Minn., and Newport, R.I.

Coyle named community news editor for Star-Observer

Mar. 10, 2023

Hannah Coyle, who has worked as a reporter for the (Hudson) Star-Observer for nearly two years, has been named community news editor, according to an announcement published this week. Her first day in the new role, in which she will oversee news content both in print an online, was Feb. 27.

A native of Red Wing, Minn., Coyle attended Red Wing Senior High School and DePaul University, from which she earned a journalism degree in 2021. While attending college she interned with O’Rourke Media’s (Red Wing, Minn.) Republican Eagle. After graduating, she was charged with re-launching another O’Rourke property, the online River Falls Journal.