It’s apple harvest season with community festivals celebrating the fruit and many commercial orchards open for picking and family fun.
While we have never grown apples commercially, we have a few...
Here’s a confession: When I’m looking for a quick read on the news, sometimes I’ll turn to the Drudge Report.
Maybe you’re familiar with the site. It’s a “news aggregator,” meaning it...
Journalism matters. Facts matter. Truth matters.
These are the ingredients that help shape the pursuit of information in newspapers.
Journalists get it “write.”
From selling newspapers on...
Katie Childs, Assistant News Editor
• October 4, 2020
The UW-Whitewater campus police reported an array of on-campus crimes throughout the month of September. The reported crimes were added to the University Police website in daily and weekend logs.
The...
News is essential to the public. It is responsible for getting information out to the masses. Whether the organization be run by professionals or student volunteers like the university’s radio station...
Katie Childs, Assistant News Editor
• September 20, 2020
The Whitewater Common Council met for a special meeting to discuss an ordinance prohibiting mass gatherings following concern over the rise of COVID-19 cases among UW-Whitewater students Sept....
University of Wisconsin-Rock County will be renamed to University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at Rock County this fall after a UW System restructuring of schools throughout the state.
The decision...
Deans, Katy Heyning and David Travis are moving on to new experiences after spending many years at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Heyning, College of Education and Professional Studies dean...
It’s about time I pass the torch.
For the past two years, I’ve been so proud to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the Royal Purple, one of those years working alongside one of my best friends as co-editors...
Gun violence is often touted as an argument of haves and have-nots, but we should have this conversation from the premise of research.
In 1996, Congress passed the Dickey Amendment as part of the omnibus...
Children gathered last week at Irwin. L Young Memorial Library in Whitewater to build their very own virtual city.
On Saturday, April 7, the library hosted its Super STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering...
