By State Rep. Don Vruwink I hear regularly from people I represent who want affordable high-speed internet, safe roads and bridges, and clean water and air. Sometimes I have good news for them, sometimes not. One piece of good news is that Congress recently passed a bipartisan $1.2 trillion package...
Category: Opinion
Our Take: Stay safe out there, deer hunters
Wisconsin’s 170th regular nine-day gun deer season begins this Saturday, with state officials expecting some 600,000 hunters heading out into the fields and forests. The state’s whitetail population exceeds 1.6 million, making an average of 18.4 deer per square mile. Now, for those who are donning the orange, the Department...
Our Take: Dashboard needed on the road to environmental repair
By Kim McDarison The last in a series of virtual community listening session was held earlier this month. Those weighing in had an opportunity to join in the discussion as the state brings together four agencies — the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Administration (DOA), Department of Health Services...
Off the Record: Peich tragedy good reason to check smoke alarm batteries
By Chris Spangler I remember Oct. 30, 1994, as if it were yesterday. I’d just arrived at the newspaper when I learned there had been a fatal fire in Fort Atkinson that morning. The victim was Merrel A. Peich, 58-year-old father of Jim Peich, whom I knew well. At the...
Fuller: Halloween a fun time at county’s public libraries
By Jill Fuller Driving down the street, I see pumpkins on front stoops and fake spiderwebs strung across bushes. The leaves on the trees are changing, like kids putting on costumes for trick-or-treating. It might be the time of year for all things spooky, but there's nothing scary about the...