Who he is

Before the Trempealeau Pioneer, William Horschak founded and was editor-in-chief of The Sports Jury, a sports opinion and analysis site with a roster of contributors writing on baseball, football, basketball, hockey and the college game. Its archive is kept at thesportsjudge.com.

The beat is narrower now and the map is smaller, but the work is the one he has always done: assign the story, edit it, and stand behind the byline. Where the Jury covered the leagues, the Pioneer covers the county board, the circuit court and the school district.

In the years between he built tools for requesting and organizing public records — the same discipline the Pioneer’s Watchdog desk files under Wisconsin’s open records law.

The paper is independently owned. It belongs to no chain, no fund and no party.

How the paper reports, and what it does when it gets something wrong, is written out on the About page.

What he covers

He writes about the circuit court and the clerk of court’s office, about the county board and the sheriff’s department, and about the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau school district. When a story crosses the county line he follows it there.

The Pioneer files its requests under Wisconsin’s public records law, Wis. Stat. §§ 19.31–19.39. What was asked for, who answered and what came back — including the denials — is logged in the open on the Watchdog desk.

How to reach him

News tips, corrections, letters and print subscriptions all reach the publisher’s desk at publisher@trempealeaupioneer.com — put what it’s about in the subject line. Corrections run plainly and in the same place the error appeared; the corrections policy is here, and the letters policy here.

Find him elsewhere: williamhorschak.com · thesportsjudge.com · LinkedIn · Substack.

Stories by William Horschak

Stories bylined Pioneer Staff are the work of the paper as a whole.