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George W. Bush credentials

Credentials to cover George W.

Bush in 2002.

New editor event in Lake Geneva
At the Northern Star

On the telephone at The Northern Star in the 1980s.

Event in Lake Geneva to introduce the newspaper's new editor in 2017.

Milwaukee Press Club membership card
In prison with Robert Berdella

Me, left, inside the Missouri State Prison interviewing

Kansas City serial killer Robert Berdella in 1989.

I started a press club in Rockford, and was glad to find one in Milwaukee.

My byline in Green Bay:

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My byline at the Green Bay Press-Gazette included my middle name for a few years because a sports writer at one of our sister papers in Wisconsin was also named Scott Williams. 

Hillary Clinton credentials

Credentials to cover Hillary Clinton in 1998.

Journal Sentinel going public item

When the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went public in 2003 on the New York Stock Exchange, employees got these magnifying devices to help us read the company's stock price in the newspaper each day.

Peoria going-away party
Local guy advertisement in Green Bay

Featured in an advertisement in the Green Bay 

Press-Gazette. Click to view a PDF.

At my going-away party in 1987 after three years

at the Peoria Journal Star. 

Peoria letter of recommendation

Letter of recommendation from one of

my first editors. Click to view a PDF.

Mike Pence credentials

Credentials to cover Mike 

Pence in 2020.

With colleagues at the Dallas Business Journal
Blue Springs police

The police chief in Blue Springs, Missouri, tried to ban me from the police station.

Inside the Wisconsin State Capitol

Working inside the Wisconsin State Capitol

press room.

My 'S' from Green Bay

An 'S' once displayed on the exterior of the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Me, far left, with my talented colleagues at the Dallas Business

Journal in the early 1990s.

With Rockford Mayor Charles Box

Rockford Mayor Charles Box, left, and me at my Rockford going-away party in 2000.

Packers playoff credentials

Credentials to cover a Green Bay Packers playoff game in 2012, which they lost.

Peoria byline

A friend made this 15-inch replica of one of my first

bylines, then arranged for it to hang -- briefly -- on the Billy Goat Tavern's newspaper wall of fame.

Places where I interviewed but didn't get the job:​

  • Atlanta Journal & Constitution -- Atlanta, Georgia

  • Dallas Morning News -- Dallas, Texas

  • Rocky Mountain News -- Denver, Colorado

  • Chicago Sun-Times -- Chicago, Illinois

  • Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, California

  • Kansas City Star -- Kansas City, Missouri

  • Quad-City Times -- Davenport, Iowa

  • Indianapolis Star -- Indianapolis, Indiana

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Places where I got hired but turned down the job:

  • The Daily Breeze -- Torrance, California

  • Mason City Globe-Gazette -- Mason City, Iowa

Outside the Racine Journal Times

The final stop on an adventure covering

10 cities in 40 years.

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