Crying Out From Kewaunee County As we've reported in our #wish4waterWI campaign and heard from Susan Connor, Kewaunee County is soaked in cow manure. That county board just passed a resolution calling for some limits on manure spreading. The town of Lincoln, in Kewaunee County, on its own... Read More
One of our featured water activists of our #wish4waterWI campaign, Aurora Conley, mused, "I just wish for my children, and eventually their children, to have a safe and healthy community." Aurora is a member of the Bad River Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa. The threat to the Tribe's water and... Read More
You know from our #wish4waterWI campaign and Susan Connor's story of her and her neighbors' struggles living with avalanches of manure in Kewaunee County. Their greatest fear is that the state of Wisconsin could allow what is euphemistically called "manure irrigation" -- that is, the... Read More
The response to our #wish4waterWI campaign has been really gratifying. Some of you have stated simple and eloquent wishes for water. Others, like Rodd Wangen, have been eloquent and -- defying the writing of the Twitter age -- have offered more extended thoughts. Here's Rodd's... It makes me... Read More
Always curious and always exploring, Susan Connor grew up in the small town of Laona, nestled among the lakes of the Nicolet National Forest. She traveled south to Madison and Milwaukee while pursuing degrees and a career, but eventually landed, happily, on the shores of Lake Michigan in... Read More