LITTLE GEMS
Kathleen Gallagher.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and reporter writing for the Milwaukee Journal is being sued by the city attorney of Pleasant Prairie for defamation. It seems that this attorney, appropriately named Smith, has taken offense, on Pleasant Prairie’s behalf, at Gallagher’s near-constant attacks on the arrival, the antics, the fraud, and all the other miscreant activities and comments made by Foxconn and its executives. Well, you go Gallagher! A judge is looking into having Smith hauled before the Ethics board in Wisconsin and charged with violating Gallagher’s First Amendment rights.
For God’s sake, the woman, brilliant as she is, and effectively investigative as she has been, writes for an honest-to-God newspaper. Wisconsin has one of the most media protective umbrella laws in the nation. Good luck Smith, in keeping your membership in the bar, and good luck Pleasant Prairie in keeping the first part of your non-descriptive name. Gallagher, no matter what will remain the brilliant writer she is.
In 2022 the nation honored only 161 students with the designation of being a Presidential Scholar.
There are over thirty million high school and middle school students in the United States. 161, out of the potentially five or six million eligible, is huge as is the honor that goes with it. This award was bestowed on the publisher of the GSR in 1965. He was the only student so designated in the South Chicago School he attended, or in any other school anywhere in the area. The publisher was a ‘D’ student, however, and barely got into college (his uncle was the head of the music department at St. Norbert College and slipped the publisher past that roadblock).
Not so with Kaylynn Lepkowski. She is now a Presidential Scholar and attends the school in Elkhorn where she’s an ‘A’ student, which is more fitting of someone with that kind of intellectual talent. Congratulations Kaylynn, as such outstanding educational awards are mostly not much noticed outside of the scholastic arena.
The birds have not come back.
That’s right, there are no seagulls in Lake Geneva anymore. Not along the beach, the shores in either direction from the beach, resting and watching atop the Riviera, or even in back area parking lots. They once roamed the entire area, a couple of hundred of them. The beach management didn’t want them, the people who operate the piers and own them didn’t want them and apparently, neither did city leadership. Nobody cares that they are gone.
The GSR cares, however. The staff of the paper believes the birds were poisoned, although nothing has so far been proven. The offer? $5000.00 for information leading to the revelation of who did this dastardly brutal deed and the conviction of that person, persons, or entity-leadership responsible for this act. People who kill animal life, including those that ‘cull’ them, are less human, colder, and much more insensitive than normal humans. Avoid them. They appear to be normal, but they are not. If you love all animals, then you are a human in good standing and order. If you do not…well, then you are something else.
Person Of The Week
Kaylynn is not only a Presidential Scholar, she’s a wonderful human being.
