When Alaska ran its elections in 2022, it used a totally new system to vote. Voters had much more choice than the two candidates they usually get, and experts said the nastiness that has become so common in modern politics was much diminished. “Do you wish your elections were more civil?” Chanda Meek, a political science professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, asked The Badger Project.

To the editor: I received my third anonymous cowardly letter in the mail a couple of weeks ago. What makes this one different is instead of addressing just me, the coward also asked that my freedom of speech be stopped and that the Oconto County Times Herald be denied their freedom of the press, asking them to stop printing my letters to the editor. My letters are timely, of local interest and different from the cowards they are signed.

Oconto Falls School District officials are working on a proposal to collaborate with child-care provider Encompass on 4-year-old kindergarten programming that may take place at the nonprofit’s new Oconto Falls center in addition to Abrams and Oconto Falls elementary schools. Encompass is currently in the process of renovating the former Kaempfer and Associates building, 650 Jackson St. in Oconto Falls, to convert it into a child care center.

The Lena Knights of Columbus are having a seafood sale to raise funds for its faith and community projects. The organization is are working with Blue Harbor Fish out of Green Bay. Orders are being taken through Feb. 2 for a wide variety of fish and shellfish items. Some items are single-serve portions, others are in 1- to 10-pound packages, and there are breaded and ready-to-cook choices, too. Orders can be picked up at the St.

The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs, and they’re not just here to participate. Less than a year after making seismic changes to their organization, and less than three months after falling to 2-5, the Packers are now 10-8 and in the postseason for the first time since 2021. That was all well and good, but the season was going to be a relative footnote if the Packers laid an egg in Dallas. They didn’t.

Packers’s offense vs. 49ers’ defense All eyes are going to be on Jordan Love as he looks for an encore performance of his sparkling playoff debut. Aaron Rodgers’ playoff debut was a game for the ages, where the Packers lost 51- 45, but Rodgers was brilliant. Love’s offense scored more points and was able to get a win, something that eluded Rodgers in his first go-round of the postseason. We’re running out of superlatives for Love at this point.

Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers TIME AND DATE: 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 LOCATION: Levi Stadium TV: Fox RADIO: Flagship WRNW-FM Milwaukee - 97.3; Packers Radio Network includes WIXX-FM Green Bay - 101.1, WRLO-FM Antigo - 105.3, WLST-FM Marinette - 95.1, and WSAU Wausau - 550 AM and 95.1 FM 2023 RECORDS: Packers, 9-8. 49ers 12-5. HISTORY: This postseason matchup is another classic throwback to the 1990s.

The Oconto Falls School Board on Jan.