Category: Opinion

Editor’s note: the following endorsement of a political candidate was released Jan. 18. by officials of the Tom Nelson campaign and submitted for publication. Nelson is running for a seat on the U.S. Senate. Political endorsements released by candidates running for office are not an endorsement of that candidate made...

Letter to the editor: Jefferson County is large enough to be its own Assembly district Leslie DeMuth of Lake Mills and I were two of the Concerned Citizens of Wisconsin that submitted a Friend of the Court Brief to the Wisconsin Supreme Court describing problems with redistricting maps currently under consideration...

By Rep. Don Vruwink  As we enter 2022, I think it’s safe to say the era of predictable unpredictability is not going away anytime soon. In 2021, people were hoping that with vaccines they would get their old lives back soon and we would return to life as usual. I’m...

Normally, I’d be jazzed to read about rare bird sightings in our state. Right now--not so much.  Last week’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, “Rare-bird sightings help ring in New Year,” written by reporter Paul A. Smith raises new questions about the migratory patterns of far-away birds and the potential for...

Thank you hardly seems sufficient to tell our volunteers how gratefulwe are for the response to the 33rd annual Fort Atkinson CommunityChristmas dinner hosted by St. Joseph's Catholic Church. We couldn'thave done it without you! We had over 100 volunteers from Fort Atkinson and beyond who made the job of set-up,...