by Ronnie Hess | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
In a political season rife with hyperbole, posturing, half-truths, intolerance, and worse, author and UW–Madison Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication Jack Mitchell reminds us that there is a media outlet where intelligent debate and public discussion are...
by Marc Seals | Nov 4, 2016 | Magazine Article
A bit more than ten years ago, I packed up my belongings and moved from Florida to the beautiful hills of Baraboo to take a job as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Baraboo/Sauk County. In my decade as a Cheesehead (which I consider a term of...
by Jason Smith | Nov 3, 2016 | Magazine Article
In an era marked by hyperpartisan political discourse and obsessive coverage of the personalities of the moment, it’s good to know that Wisconsinites have an objective public media resource in WisconsinEye. For almost ten years, WisconsinEye has been providing...
by Steve Tomasko | Nov 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
I came across a dead porcupine sitting on its bellylooking asleep—his only sign of injury a crookedand bloody nose—and thought perhaps I’d get a poemout of it—this corpse I nearly stumbled overin the dark cedar copse. But the world doesn’t always give you poemswhen...
by Jeri McCormick | Nov 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
My brother and I conjured a swamp of black water,filled it with saw-toothed specimens, upping the anteof our basement games. Any trek downstairs meant taking the treacherous route—the jumpfrom the fifth stair onto a small castaway table,followed by the precarious...
