The WNA Foundation is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Wisconsin Civics Games Editorial Writing & Cartoon Contest. Returning for a second year
Kenyon Hill, a seventh grader at St. Joseph Catholic Academy in Pleasant Prairie, reflects on the freedoms afforded by the First Amendment.
Americans should appreciate the amendments in the U.S. Constitution and the rights they protect, writes eighth grader Ella Stahmann.
Lucy Elthoft, a seventh grader at Lance Middle School, questions whether the First Amendment does enough to protect religious minorities.
Abby Isermann, a junior at Iola-Scandinavia High School, highlights moments in history shaped by the First Amendment.
As COVID-19 upended the lives of students around the state, schools across Wisconsin saw a troubling increase in chronic absences.
Many people in Wisconsin are under the impression that the disastrous probe into the state’s 2020 presidential election conducted by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is over, as are its costs to taxpayers. They’re wrong, writes Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council President Bill Lueders in the group's most recent "Your Right to Know" column.
The amount paid by taxpayers now stands at more than $2 million, including nearly $1.5 million in legal fees, according to a report by WisPolitics.com.
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group that works to protect access to public meetings and records, is now accepting nominations for its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees.
Nominations, along with supporting documentation, should be submitted by Friday, Feb. 10, to blueders@gmail.com.
Mary Ruth Schmutzler, former editor of the Deerfield Independent, died on Jan. 18 in Shawano, following a long illness. She was 73.
After graduating, she was named editor of the Deerfield Independent, and in January 1972, she wed Dean Schmutzler in Beaver Dam. In 1974, they moved to Green Bay, where she became the news editor for the Catholic Diocese newspaper The Spirit. The couple also later published the Northeast Wisconsin edition of the Builder/Architect magazine.
When the University of Wisconsin’s two-year colleges were absorbed by regional UW schools in bigger communities, critics worried about the state of higher education in small-town Wisconsin.
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