By Shereen Siewert, Publisher Wausau Pilot and Review I spent the past week in Houston attending the annual Institute for Nonprofit News conference. It was a week of learning how…
By Shereen Siewert Memorial Day is a time of mixed emotions. In central Wisconsin, the holiday marks the informal beginning of summer. It’s the weekend to break out the grill,…
By David Eckmann, Ed.D, President/CEO of the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce Do you remember living through the Great Recession earlier this decade and the impact it had throughout central…
By Karissa Niehoff, Executive Director of the National Federation of State High School Associations and David Anderson, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. If you are the mother…
By Shereen Siewert, Wausau Pilot and Review In the past two days, Wausau Pilot and Review has reported on several arrests that happened over a four-day span in October targeting…
By Shereen Siewert, Publisher and Founder of Wausau Pilot and Review As a local news platform, Wausau Pilot and Review doesn’t often publish national stories. We’ve pledged to be nonpartisan,…
By Shereen Siewert, Editor and Publisher From the time we launched Wausau Pilot and Review, we recognized the value in a vibrant comment section that offers a central means of…
By Shereen Siewert, Editor of Wausau Pilot and Review In January 2015, terrorists walked into an editorial meeting at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and started shooting. Twelve people died.…
By Shereen Siewert Memorial Day is a time of mixed emotions. In central Wisconsin, the holiday marks the informal beginning of summer. It’s the weekend to break out the grill,…
By Shereen Siewert “Don’t take it personally.” That’s usually good advice. But today, as we close out Sunshine Week, we urge the opposite reaction to any government body operating in…
By Keene Winters Sometimes we should thank God for unanswered prayers. Such was the case when CBL & Associates skipped town before laying hands on any part of the $4.1…
By Keene Winters In the beginning, borrowed money is fun. You get to buy the things of your dreams. The downside is that you have to pay the money back.…
Editor’s note: Thanks to our LION partner, Berkleyside, for this story. When Facebook announced last week it will show users more posts from friends and family, while hiding the news, the…
By Shereen Siewert/Editor, Wausau Pilot & Review Tonight, members of the city’s public health and safety committee will, for the first time in years, revisit the idea of requiring beer…
By Christine Palm Another day, another mass murderer with domestic violence in his past. By now, it’s a well-established pattern: male, usually white, often disgruntled ex-military, with a narcissistic grudge…
By Shereen Siewert, Editor of Wausau Pilot and Review City spending is not necessarily a zero-sum game, but the reality is that there’s only so much money to distribute without…
By Bernie Sherry The debate in Congress over whether to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been put aside, at least for now. The time is now…
By Josh Wilson/The Chronicle of Philanthropy For more than a decade, with the news industry under deepening financial strain, grant makers have invested millions in technology, innovation, and business-model experiments,…
