Wisconsin ballot questions on election administration are too vague, officials say
Apr. 2, 2024
Who would be allowed to set up polling places or print ballots? Clerks struggle for answers.
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Who would be allowed to set up polling places or print ballots? Clerks struggle for answers.
The strange election-year recall effort targeting the longest serving speaker in Wisconsin history has gotten stranger.
Jim, who used to work with a local volunteer fire department, told me about the technique they used to keep everyone on the right roads to arrive at fire sites. “It was in the days before GPS,” he said.
A horrific scene played out in February in an apartment complex in Middleton, a Madison suburb.
One certainty that I have learned over my long years is that nature moves at her own pace.
After seven years with the Vilas County News-Review, editor Michelle Drew is embarking on a new journey. March 20 was her final day at the newspaper. Drew joined the News-Review as lifestyle editor in March 2017. She was promoted to assistant editor in 2019 and editor in December 2021.
A number of new faces will take the reins upon Drew’s departure, including new associate editors Jacob Heid and Josephine Hinderman.
Brian Thomsen, 64, of Valders, died unexpectedly on Sunday, March 24, at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, surrounded by his family.
He grew up helping his grandparents, Fred and Marion Brockman, publishers of the Valders Journal, contributing as a reporter and photographer during high school and college. He assumed the role of editor soon after graduation and eventually became co-owner and publisher, succeeding his grandparents, who founded the newspaper in 1940. Thomsen served on the WNA Board of Directors from 2009 to 2017, serving as president in 2016.
In the years prior to the pandemic, Wisconsin’s reported homeless population shrank, following changes in programs to serve that population.
Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa and elsewhere, experts say.
Lots of incumbent state legislators are having to make some tough decisions these days. Those decisions will help determine who controls the Assembly after the November elections.
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