Corey Koskie, the Minnesota Twins’ third baseman from 1999 through 2004, will be a featured speaker Friday (Jan. 11) at the second annual Mayo Clinic Health System Sports Medicine Symposium in Eau Claire.
The symposium is sponsored by Mayo and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Author of book on North Dakota oil boom to speak at UW-Stout on Nov. 8
The author of a new book about the North Dakota oil boom will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Stout at 7 p.m. next Thursday (Nov. 8).
Maya Rao, a Washington DC-based reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is scheduled to talk in room 112 of Jarvis Hall Science Wing. Her book, “Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier,” was published in April.
Chippewa Valley newspapers were part of Thursday’s national editorial response to Trump’s attacks on press
Chippewa Valley newspapers participated in Thursday’s coordinated national effort to respond through editorials to the barrage of attacks unleashed on them by President Donald Trump and others who use the press as a convenient target when its coverage is not to their liking. The goal for Thursday was for as many U.S. newspapers as possible to write and publish editorials that denounce what The Boston Globe called “a dirty war against the free press.”