Attribution: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s fond memories of the decade or so that he spent roaming Wisconsin as a columnist/reporter for the Milwaukee Journal back in the days—1970s– when it was still one helluva newspaper and covered the state like a mother’s warm blanket.
Competent editors made decisions, not corporate money-counters.
Those were heady days for the keeper—new company car, liberal expense account, column writing independence, and on one occasion joining the Journal reporting team to cover the Dem’s National Convention in New York the year Jimmy Carter was nominated.
The keeper wonders if some of that old journalistic scaffolding were still in place what he might be writing as the Repubs occupy his old home base? “Lying in your beer?” “How to milk a cow with a whip.” “Meeting and greeting future royalty.”
(Some of the keeper’s Mil. Jour. work was published in “Hi-ho Silver Anyway” with a few old copies kicking around on Amazon or from the keeper at his website billstokesauthor.com.)
Photo by Bill Stokes