“It was nearly midnight when they finally took David Groves out to the woods.” That’s the first sentence of the book I’m reading. You know if …
For the last two years I’ve had the opportunity to be the publisher of the Ashland Daily Press and Price County Review, which I can say has tr…
I have no idea if Ashland City Council member Richard Pufall’s idea to bring a retired U.S. Navy destroyer to the city’s waterfront holds any …
Wisconsin businesses in the hospitality face myriad challenges these days.
With the spring season now in full swing, you might stop to look around and notice the Northland coming to life after a long and cold winter. …
“We’re all in this together” is a phrase sometimes heard when we speak of climate change. This causes me to wonder how some of the drastic eff…
It happens all the time.
Close readers will have noticed that after sports reporter Hilary Jewell gradually ramped up coverage of local sports during the pandemic, she…
Most people by now probably have heard the story of Andrea Sahouri, the Des Moines Register reporter who was arrested and put on trial for doi…
Even during a normal year, these are the toughest days for me — these days when the sun angle is changing and darkness comes a little later ev…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief a problem that afflicts the Bay Area— a problem that to me represents a glaring failure on…
Read these brief bios and see if you notice anything they have in common:
Over my 30-plus years in journalism it has been my Great good fortune to interview several noteworthy people.
About 20 years ago, I was invited to Washington, D.C. for a gathering of reporters and editors where we talked about some of our best work and…
I went back in time today. Photos from an old scrapbook spoke to me. Sitting in the middle of my living room floor, in the middle of a cold gr…
It boggles my mind that people have to be persuaded and sometimes even bribed to do the right thing for themselves and their friends and loved ones.
Shall we suffer the same fate as the western U.S. from wildfire?
We’re now into what is for many of us the most difficult time of the year.
“Happy New Year!” These are words we have been looking forward to saying for MONTHS now. I believe it is unanimous; 2020 was one for the recor…
Opossums — or possums, if you prefer — get a bad rap.
What exactly does it mean that Ashland and Bayfield counties are considered to have “very high” COVID-19 activity?
Marsy’s Law was lobbied for in Wisconsin and adopted by legislators and then residents, all of whom had the best of intentions.
Last week, my wife and I got a wonderful gift.
Here are some questions for parents to ponder:
Few words in recent weeks have been more gratifying than these, from a front-page story in today’s edition:
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