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not enough promotion in the paper.
The opinion column was nice, but why
is the news story on this buried at the
bottom of page 9? I liked the Facebook
posts promoting it, but there should
have been bigger stories detailing the
food security issue and more coverage
in the paper itself. Find personal stories
of families struggling, interview the
clubs participating and what it means
to them.
Open Division: Weekly
First Award: The Edgerton Reporter:
“Sterling North Book and Film
Festival” - Staff: Great job all-around
celebrating your book and film festival.
Lots of editorial accompanied by good
art and targeted advertising. Wonderful
layout. Keep up the stellar work.
Second Award: Jackson County
Chronicle, Black River Falls: “Melrose
Centennial” - Matthew Perenchio,
Cassandra Colson, Sally Paitl: A lot of
effort and research clearly put in here.
We wish there would have been more
photos, but we appreciate the stories.
Third Award: Ripon Commonwealth
Press: “Special Project Entry” - Staff:
The art is amazing here. Liked the
scrapbook layout very much.
Honorable Mention: The Star, Sun
Prairie: “Hope 2 Others” - Barb
Trimble: Fun ads and good layout on
stories.
Editorial
Group A
First Award: The Capital Times,
Madison: “The Capital Times” - John
Nichols, Dave Zweifel, Lynn Danielson,
Judie Kleinmaier: This paper has
a strong voice and, in the grandest of
newspapering tradition, puts politicians
on notice and holds them accountable.
Well done. Keep it up.
Second Award: Wisconsin State
Journal, Madison: “Strong ruling lets
Wisconsin say ‘I do’” and other editorials
- Scott Milfred: Series of three
editorials over a nine-month period
on an issue important to the local
economy: a proposed casino that the
governor is holding to an “impossible
standard.” Editorials are well-written, a
nice length and consistent.
Third Award: Green Bay Press-Gazette:
Editorials - Peter Frank.
Group B
First Award: The Gazette, Janesville:
“Secrecy on fire station burns city, Call
community summit on heroin, Make that
call to prevent suicide” - Greg Peck: Solid
topics. Great clarity and calls to action.
Second Award: Oshkosh Northwestern:
“Looking a gift horse in the mouth:
A last stand for 113th Congress, City
needs fresh look at budget” - James
Fitzhenry: Very well thought out.
Concise. Love “The Final Thought.”
Third Award: Beloit Daily News: “Let
the people in on the issues” - William
Barth: Took on controversial topics
and hit them head on.
Honorable Mention: The Journal
Times, Racine: “Approve the casino;
we need the jobs, Ask not what your
country can do for you, An unfortunate
lapse in judgment by Chiapete”
- Mark Lewis, Steve Lovejoy, Tom Farley,
Stephanie Jones: Very good pieces.
Easy to read. Concise.
Group C
First Award: Daily Tribune, Wisconsin
Rapids: “Bullying culture cannot
be ignored; Under new owners, paper
industry shift continues; Daily Tribune
building project engages community”
- Robert Mentzer: Clean, compelling
arguments and calls to action made this
stand out.
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Editorial
Member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and the National Newspaper Association
FIRST PLACE NATIONALLY
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Published weekly by Eagle River Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 1929, 425 W. Mill St.
at Eagle River, Wisconsin 54521 erpub@nnex.net vcnewsreview.com
Our View
Reduced bag limit system
is crucial to conservation
In a press release announcing its spring
walleye spearing declarations on a record 273
northern Wisconsin lakes, the Lac du Flambeau
tribe said last Friday that the state’s
angling bag-limit system is a “flawed practice”
that continues to “fuel contempt and animosity
toward Chippewa tribes.”
We beg to differ.
In line with the safe harvest formula that
was devised by the Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) and approved by federal
courts, the system of reducing sport angler daily
bag limits to curtail the chances of a walleye
overharvest is not flawed. It’s essential.
As the official management authority, the
DNR had no choice but to draw a permanent
line in the sand — a safe harvest system based
on extensive walleye population estimates
where neither tribal spearers nor sport anglers
can escape the consequences. There is no other
way to share the walleye resources while also
protecting them.
Vilas County New-Review,
First Award, Group D, Editorial
Second
Lac
Award:
du Flambeau
EagleHerald,
Tribal President Tom
Marinette:
Maulson has
“Marinette
always opposed
Utility
the stringent
in deep
counting and measuring of every walleye taken
waters” by spearing, - Dan which Kitkowski.
the courts defined as a
“high efficiency” harvest method that required
more monitoring than “low efficiency” sport
angling.
Third Award: Herald Times Reporter,
Reduced bag limits for anglers might fuel
Manitowoc: contempt toward “High-speed the tribes, but then chases, again, so Don’t
might the entire subject of off-reservation
let
spearing
exceptions
and a shared
rule
resource.
the day,
Let’s
Stricter
not
investment
blame bag limits
rules”
for animosity
- Patrick
created
Pankratz:
by federal
court rulings that affirmed off-reservation
spearing rights. Reduced bag limits are a result
of the bigger issue, and they will always have a
Honorable direct correlation Mention: to the number The of Daily walleyes Reporter,
Milwaukee: “Three editorials”
speared or declared for harvest by the tribes.
The tribes have also pointed out for years
- Chris Thompson.
that spearers harvesting 30,000 walleyes is
light pressure compared to sport anglers taking
between 700,000 and 900,000 walleyes
Group
annually
D
in the ceded territory. Here’s the difference:
For the tribes, it’s 200 spearers taking
First an average Award: of 150 Vilas walleyes County each during News- a twoweek
period. For the state, it’s 400,000 anglers
Review, taking an Eagle average River: of two walleyes “Editorials” each over- Kurt
the course of a year.
Krueger, Gary Ridderbusch, Anthony
It’s just a guess that 400,000 of the state’s
Drew: Direct and to the point.
1.24 million licensed anglers go after walleyes.
It might be more; could be less. However, it’s
still low efficiency. DNR studies have shown
that the average walleye angler spends eight
Second Award: The Star News, Medford:
“Stop Voter Suppression Efforts,
hours fishing to harvest a legal walleye.
We suggest that the DNR tread carefully
Student when it code comes to is alternative flawed and regulation needs adjustments
to the reduced bag limits for anglers.
to go
back Changing to the season drawing lengths board, or employing Beware stricter of
size limits will come with a long learning
false curve. populism” The department -Brian shouldn’t Wilson: risk failure Strong in
protecting the walleye fishery, regardless of
positions, but a bit preachy.
how unhappy either side becomes.
We can only hope that the tribes don’t
Third ignore Award: the importance Vernon of maintaining County a Broadcaster,
Woods, Viroqua: which is good “Editorials” for the economy - and Matt
healthy
fishing-related tourism industry in the North
every business here — tribal casinos included.
Johnson: Well written, but fewer
The current bag limit system is not a
clichés would be welcome.
flawed practice. It is the only way to control the
total angler walleye harvest in response to
spearing declarations, to prevent depletion.
Behind the editorial ‘we’
Members of the Vilas County News-
Review editorial board include Publisher
Kurt Krueger, Editor Gary Ridderbusch
If you were asked to list
those items on which you
will spend the most money
during your lifetime, a home
and cars would probably top
the list. Another major
expenditure, food, would
likely not be mentioned
among the top five.
The average American
consumes nine pigs, eight
cows and about 15,000 eggs
would be part of the 29 tons
During that same 10-year
Second Award: The Tribune-Phonograph,
Abbotsford:
period, the CBO, which is
nonpartisan, says interest
on the
“Wait;
government’s
Frozen,
debt
would nearly quadruple to
Conflicted” - Kevin $812 billion, O’Brien: from $223 Nice billion,
becoming the third
commentary * * * on local largest line issues. item in the Clear budget.
and
direct writing. Good Corrected job. for inflation, the
of solid food which each of
us will eat, along with 6,500
gallons of liquid; about onethird
of that liquid intake
will be coffee. Personally, I’ve
never had a cup of coffee!
Other solid foods will
include about 1,500 pounds
of chicken, 800 pounds of
fish and about 1,400 pounds
of prepared meats.
Then, there would be two
tons of potatoes, six and a
half tons of bread and related
products, lots of vegetables,
fruit and dairy products,
mounds of spaghetti
and macaroni and an
extraordinary amount of
sugar, candy and spices.
CONSERVATIVE econ o -
m ists have been warning us
for many years about the
tsunami of debt headed our
Third Award: River Falls Journal: “Editorials”
- Phil Pfuehler: Good use of
local situations for commentary.
Honorable Mention: The Record-
Review, Abbotsford: “Want to go forward?
Stop going backwards, A faith
restored, Support the Child Victims
Act - Peter Weinschenk: Especially
liked the first editorial in this entry.
Nice handle on local politics.
Group F
First Award: Clintonville Chronicle:
“Inner Ramblings” - Tricia Rose: Talk
about local subjects, this editor has her
fingers on the pulse of the community
— and jumps right in. Congratulations.
Forest Second trails Award: great The Cambridge News:
for “Editorials” snowshoeing - Amy Alder. Well-written
editorials with mostly local subjects.
Third Award: Manawa Messenger,
Clintonville: “Point Taken” - Madeline
Marquardt: Good writing, but Trails local
subjects would be better —& and Talesbetter
attention to typos.
THE DARK OF night
grudgingly gives way to the
first dawn of light over the
oak-covered ridge where a
hunter sits silently in wait.
It is spring in Kentucky,
and the hunter, a long way
from his North Wisconsin
home, is looking forward to a
sun that will soon lift the
temperature on his ridge
from an early morning low
Editorial Pages
of 40 to a bone-warming
high of 75 later in the day.
It has been a hard, cold
winter up north, and the
way in federal government
spending on entitlements —
Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid — partly
because of the wave of babyboomers
reaching retirement
age, 10,000 per day.
The Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) has taken
the Obama 2015 budget projections
and estimated the
trajectory of the spending on
entitlements for the decade
2014 to 2024.
Group E
Here’s what Wall Street
First Award: Milton Journal Courier: columnist William “Editorials”
- James Debilzen: March 12 Well-written
paper.
Galston reported in the
The CBO says Social
editorials with a strong Security spending voice. will Good rise
by $644 billion, Medicare
eye to local issues. will Not soar by afraid $350 billion to and call
Medicaid by $242 billion.
out those who deserve Remember, it. at current Nice spend-
work!
ing levels, we have a budget
with over $500 billion in
deficit spending.
big three entitlement spending
numbers would increase
With 20 to 30 inches of snow still on the groun
and Oneida counties, and hundreds of mile
trails on public land, snowshoe enthusiasts h
ty of opportunity to enjoy their sport. Meanwh
mobile trails will close at the end of the mont
—Photo By TAYLOR RIDDE
Group A
for, a gobble erupts from a
First Award: Wisconsin
clump of oak
State
not 100
Journal,
yards
away. Then another. Wait,
Madison: Scott Milfred, there’s another Kris over Crary, there,
and yet another from that
Phil Hands, Laura hickory Nolen, tree up Amy on the point Geiger:
of the ridge.
Powerful & thoughtful Hens begin commentary to cluck and on
yelp. It looks like this will be
complex issues. These a busy morning pages for are the a public
warmth he feels on the
opening morning of Kentucky
turkey hunting is not
just from the sun.
There is this thing called
adrenalin, and there is this
thing called the joy of hunting,
of being out in the
woods once again where in a
matter of minutes excited
gobblers will add to the
melody of song birds already
trilling from their brushy
hideouts.
The North Wisconsin
hunter sits, nerves on edge,
waiting for the first soft tree
be in this country where
dogwood is already in bloom
and where tree leaves are
starting to burst forth.
It is good to be a hunter
on a morning like this, and
then, just as the script calls
turkeys and the man who
hunts them.
He continues to sit there,
not anxious to add his calls
to the mix, content to let
lovelorn gobblers work
by more than 20%
debt payments w
triple. The projec
of entitlement sp
limit the nation’s
vital areas.
So, why do we
ing the can down
Why don’t our el
sentatives take a
rein in this spen
save us from thi
How can our eco
our government
economic disaste
When govern
tribute money, it
enormous effects
to an item in the
AARP Bulletin,
paid to Social Se
ficiaries generat
in spending and
trillion to the U.
An NBC New
announced on th
edition of Meet t
showed that 65%
Americans are w
about the future
try. The poll resu
Americans are n
with President O
formance, but th
confidence in Re
leadership eithe
term elections co
sure to ask the c
what they propo
It was the hunt of dreams
By
Will Maines
invitations.
A half-hour p
the air constantl
turkey talk, and
birds began to fl
the roost. Three
40 yards out in t
where his decoys
silent sentinel.
Before he kno
are sailing out o
’round, some hea
from him, a doze
alighting in the
are two jakes sta
yards away deba
whether they sh
wrath of a long-s
bler by saunterin
to a pair of hen d
choose to wait at
tance, and the h
decides to wait a
His is a good
10 minutes later
perhaps the boss
the woods, saunt
the hunter’s dire
Hair is up on
the hunter’s nec
coiled tightly, gu
ready. Step by st