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FOND DU LAC – For more than a year, I’ve been delivering the latest business news to readers’ inboxes every two weeks with the Fond du Lac Streetwise Newsletter.I’ve covered Fond du Lac for nearly five years for The Reporter, and I’ve lived in Fond du Lac all my life, watching the rise and fall of the city and surrounding area.My favorite time has always been talking to new and expanding business owners, digging into Fond du Lac’s past that I wasn’t involved in, but learning about other trends and business trends. I also knew how important it was to…

The News-Press selects players who stood out over the past week based on a combination of coaches’ reports and school recommendations sent to sports@news-press.com and our own coverage. These athletes take part in a poll every Monday on news-press.com where readers can vote for the athlete they think did the best job. The winner of “The News-Press Athlete of the Week” voting sponsored by Elevate Home Services will receive a T-shirt provided by BSN Sports and a tote bag provided by USA Today High School Sports Awards. To learn more about the winners, The News-Press will conduct a Q&A session…

Each week during the school year, The News-Press selects players who stood out over the past week based on a combination of coaches’ reports and school nominations sent to sports@news-press.com and our own coverage . These athletes take part in a poll every Monday on news-press.com where readers can vote for the athlete they think did the best job.The winner of “The News-Press Athlete of the Week” voting sponsored by Elevate Home Services will receive a T-shirt provided by BSN Sports and a tote bag provided by USA Today High School Sports Awards. Voting ends every Thursday at 10am. Winners…

Red states are getting even redder. Blue states are getting even bluer.Is it any surprise that our politics are heating up?USA TODAY’s exclusive analysis of 3,113 U.S. counties shows that significant redistricting since 2012 has increased partisanship in states across the country, leaving only a few counties in doubt about the outcome of the Nov. 5 presidential election. It is shown that only a handful remain.The hardening of the nation’s political trajectory is also contributing to other effects, such as single-party control of governors and state legislatures in 40 of the 50 states. That leaves a patchwork of laws that…

Veteran job search skills workshops travel to Amarillo and more West Texas, Panhandle area citiesAUSTIN – The Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Veterans Employment Services (VES) team’s Off-Base Transition Training (OBTT) West Texas Road Show is on the go again.OBTT’s goal is to prepare unemployed veterans and their spouses to enter meaningful employment on a long-term basis. The training offers four high-quality workshops covering creating resumes, job fair strategies, networking, how to perform proper introductions with employers and interview skills. This also prepares veterans for job fairs including the upcoming state-wide Hiring Red, White & You! in November, a news release…

Hello AJ readers!This week had several highlights, including a big update on Leprino Foods and a fascinating feature on a recently opened business.The business summary for September was announced on Monday. There were more than 12 business announcements, including 7 starts, 2 closures, and 5 rumor confirmations. This is down from 22 cases in September 2023.More information: Durangos among 14 Lubbock businesses to announce changes in September.On Thursday, I visited the recently opened shop, Bread & Jam at Chicago Station, 5507 126th St., #211. The shop is a partnership between Kelle Barnard of Kelle B Jammin’ and Todd Hassell of…

The first thing you should know is that I hate talking about myself.Icebreakers are my worst nightmare. Someone asked me to share a fun fact and suddenly I felt like the lamest person on the planet. I have two cats. I was obsessed with Doctor Who and met David Tennant. I’m from Illinois and I root for the Green Bay Packers because the Chicago Bears are terrible. Is this fun? Am I still having fun?To be honest, the first thing I say in those situations is my job. I cover state government and politics for the USA TODAY Network’s Ohio…

Each fall marks the release of a new “Best Colleges” guide by U.S. News & World Report that ranks four-year colleges in the United States.The long-awaited 2025 edition lists Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Stanford, and Yale as the same “top five” best national universities as last year. Additionally, Caltech Duke, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Cornell University of Pennsylvania, Brown University of Chicago, Columbia University, Dartmouth, UCLA, University of California Berkeley, Rice, University of Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt.School rankings are not the only criteria students and their parents should evaluate, but the factors considered provide a guideline…

WASHINGTON – Another presidential election blighted by hurricanes.On the political front, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are hopeful that the recovery from Hurricane Helen will be similar to the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The fairly smooth process was a credit to the last Democratic-controlled White House. election season.Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is trying to turn the latest natural disaster to hit the United States in an election year into a Harris-Biden version of 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. It was a belated and sloppy response that sealed the defeated president’s political fate. George H.W.…

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and later buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. The runway was damaged and more than 80 flights were canceled, but no one was injured.The explosion occurred at Miyazaki Airport in southwest Japan.Japanese Transport Ministry officials said there were no aircraft nearby when the bomb unexpectedly detonated, but the explosion left a crater 7 meters wide and more than 3 feet deep, according to Reuters.Witness a World War II bomb detonating on a Japanese airport runwayWATCH: Video shows Russian fighter jet performing ‘dangerous’ maneuver in close proximity to US Air Force…