Author Archives: Adam Schrager

Praise Where It’s Due

Flip around late-night cable some day and you’re likely to come across the film, and more importantly, the story which inspired a generation of people like myself to get into journalism. “All the President’s Men,” won numerous Academy Awards for … Continue reading

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I’m just a Bill

After two years, numerous stops and starts, threatened lawsuits, high unemployment, fears of environmental catastrophe, and promises of economic opportunity, at some time today, the State Assembly will pass Senate Bill 1 that seeks to change Wisconsin’s mining laws to … Continue reading

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“You did not see anything”

This is a time and space for someone more clever than me. Someone who could wax rhapsodic about the two-week investigation into the disappearance of Guido, what a lucky headline writer at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel called “The Missing Link.” If … Continue reading

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Order in the Court

“If the judicial ermine and gown in Wisconsin shall drop from other shoulders hereafter as pure and unsullied as from his, we shall have no cause to feel ashamed.” Take a trip through the Wisconsin Court System website highlighting this … Continue reading

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Digging for History

I often joke about how my memory, with three children age five and under, fails me as often as my knees and ankles these days. It is why I marvel at people like my father who can recite passages from … Continue reading

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