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Always a Wisconsin connection.
For more than six decades, 103-year-old Irvin Koch has been pouring drinks for customers out of the basement of his home in Maryland.
His dive bar, legally zoned for commercial use, is a time capsule tucked away from the rest of the world above. wapo.st/4y7FQap
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Last week I was told by Tiffany's team that I wouldn't be let into events if I wasn't a fair reporter.
Earlier this week, Tiffany said all reporters would be let into his events, even me, when he was asked about Trump's ban on TV stations.
Now they're blocking my colleague.
At Tom Tiffany’s campaign stop in Milwaukee, staff is blocking @MSpicuzzaMJS and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from covering the event
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Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code.
Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/phns92ui
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Dave Barry on his wife, the veteran sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, who was laid off by the Miami Herald in the latest round of McClatchy's collapse. So many stories just like this, across the country, on every news beat. The news industry is dying and we're all worse off for it.
I can see like 7 great follow-up stories here but the biggest one is that Wisconsin leggies are utterly failing kids and voters by not revising the complex formula for funding schools.
NEW for @CivicMediaUS: 46 of 75 school referendum questions were approved by voters across Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to unofficial election night returns. The outcomes for some rural districts after Election Night - some good, some bad - are massive.
civicmedia.us/news/2026/04/0…
Our Milwaukee hometown girls done good. ❤️
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To our D.C. readers: While we can still barely quantify last week's loss, just a note to say @jennygathright & I and a small but committed Metro team are still here. In such a consequential year for the city, we plan to give it everything we've got. Hope you'll stick with us.
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Impossible to overstate appreciation for the on-the-ground journalists in the Twin Cities covering this overwhelming series of events. Support their independent, ethical reporting under immense stress.
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🚨beautiful story that will make you feel proud to live in Wisconsin alert from @KellyMeyerhofer
He came from Japan to hike the 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail. Wisconsin hikers fully embraced him jsonline.com/story/news/loca… via @journalsentinel
The @journalsentinel is restoring an arts writer position! Thanks to our new work securing grant funding to bolster and grow local reporting in Wisconsin, we’re looking for a snappy writer/creator/thinker/connector. Reports to @chelseylew
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Was the FCC’s pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air illegal? Here’s what the Constitution and Supreme Court say. #firstamendment #supremecourt #fcc #politics #news #jimmykimmel
Really great stuff here. Their data presentation and interactives are clever, inviting and effective.
CalMatters has won first place for general excellence among medium-sized newsrooms in the 2025 Online Journalism Awards. Judges highlighted how our journalism triggers “real-world impact,” and fulfills our mission to “demystify California government.” cal.news/47G8gyP
ALT alt: CalMatters logo with the Online Journalism Awards logo. Text: 2025 winner, General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Newsroom
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If anyone has any intel on the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, I’m on the ground in Utah.
DM me
We can talk on or off the record.
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Yes, the shooter in Minneapolis was trans.
No, there is (still) not an 'epidemic' of shootings by trans people:
usatoday.com/story/news/nati…
An all-female mariachi band from Milwaukee?! I am pumped to see them. So glad @journalsentinel plugged it.
jsonline.com/story/news/loca…
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The @journalsentinel is providing live updates amid record-breaking flooding in Milwaukee area.
Early indications this weather event is historic: KK and MKE rivers broke water level records, and airport reported 5.74 inches, breaking 1960 record.
jsonline.com/live-story/weat…
📰 Big news, Wisconsin: @journalsentinel has launched a community-funded journalism campaign. Your support will help us tell more stories that matter - about neighborhoods, schools, environment & the arts - and help us offer more newsroom internships. bit.ly/4fpCwzC
No way WSJ would run this it hadn’t been thoroughly vetted. Their lawyers are prepped, no doubt
#5 - Trump literally just got done suing several major news outlets. In this moment, with Rupert Murdoch running WSJ (who just went through the election fraud lawsuits at Fox), do you rly think they'd run this if they didn't have the goods? Get real. They have the letters.
Cool addition to the north side of Milwaukee. I had forgotten what all the construction at North and Locust was all about.
ICYMI...it will include maker space such as podcasting equipment and 3D printing...Milwaukee's King Library branch has been rebuilt and now includes apartments. It opens Sept. 6 jsonline.com/story/money/rea… via @journalsentinel
I’ve never seen a car hit a cyclist like this — and then speed away with the crumpled bike stuck on its front bumper. (Cyclist is ok) @journalsentinel jsonline.com/videos/news/cri…
