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Published in the Minnesota Daily 9/20/2009. First Place winner of the AAJA Student Journalism award for news reporting. A growing corporate structure to the landlord model is outpacing some city and University tools used to keep an eye on rental property owners. As more homes in the University district become rental property, it might surpriseContinue reading “The corporate neighbor”

This story was published in the Daily Register 1/22/2011. Fire and water. Positive and negative. Left and right. Packers and Bears. The conflict between the two football franchises is the oldest of its kind in the National Football League, and for many fans the great football rivalry has become a defining cultural characteristic of whatContinue reading “TIL PIGSKIN DO US PART: Yes, Packers and Bears fans can co-exist”

Published in the Daily Register 12/20/2010. Claude Houk has 85,000 reasons to like the Christmas season. That’s the number of blinking, flashing and strobing lights strung up on decorations he designed at his mother’s Washington Street home. About five blocks away on Brooks Street, Tim Baggot is planning the next 20-foot custom-made “Happy Holidays” signContinue reading “A Merry DIY (do-it-yourself) Christmas”

This story was published in the Daily Register 11/27/2010. “What year is this plane?” Santa Claus asked, cramming himself and his big red coat in the single propeller aircraft at the front of the runway. “Seventy-eight … ’79 … whatever,” said Tim Dahnke, this year’s pilot of the Santa Express, the plane that flies St.Continue reading “Santa Sighting: jolly old elf flies in to town”

This story was published in the Daily Register 11/25/2010. MONTELLO – Alexis Daggett needs a bigger wall. The once-blue wall of Daggett’s bedroom is now overrun with brown plaques commemorating her victories in horse-reining competitions. All of them, including those placed on the floor from lack of space, features a rider astride a horse gracefullyContinue reading “The ‘Reining’ Champ”

  This was posted in the Daily Register 11/1/2010. As a school administrator, Elmer Mitchell encouraged students to have good attendance. He practiced what he preached. At age 84, Mitchell is continuing his 50-year streak of perfect attendance for the Portage Area Kiwanis Club. Mitchell has attended a meeting almost every week, totaling more thanContinue reading “‘Elmer, you are my hero’; Mitchell gets honor for Kiwanis attendance”

Published in the Daily Register 9/21/2010. POYNETTE – The room was just above a chilling 40 degrees, but the harsh florescent lights of the Poynette Curling Club betrayed Mike Murphy’s nervousness. Sweat was beading on his forehead. His anxiety was understandable: it isn’t every day you get to curl against an Olympic medalist. That is,Continue reading “Skipping stones: Curling Olympian from China playing in Poynette”