Join the Pioneer reader panel

What this is

A standing group of county residents we survey from time to time on county services, budget priorities, and what the Watchdog desk should request next. You answer when you feel like it. There is no cost and no obligation.

It is not a scientific poll. It is a panel of people who chose to join, which is a different thing and a weaker one. Every result we publish will say how many people answered and how the numbers were weighted against census benchmarks. We will not pretend it is something it is not.

How we verify you live here

We mail a postcard with a one-time code to the address you give us. You enter the code and you are on the panel. That is what separates this from a poll anyone on the internet can answer.

What we keep, and what we throw away

Your name and street address are stored apart from everything else and used to mail that postcard. When you enter your code we delete them — unless you tick the box below asking us to keep your address so we can send you the print edition and paper surveys. That choice is yours and you can change it by writing to us. If you never enter the code, the address is deleted within 90 days either way.

What we keep afterwards is your email address, which town or village you live in, and the age, education and sex ranges you choose below. Those are what let us weight results to match the county. Your answers to any survey are stored against a panel number, never against your name.

No lists are sold or shared. That has not changed and will not.

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Full name

Email address

Street address

City or townZIP

Which town or village do you live in?

Optional, and only used to weight results

Every one of these can be left blank. We ask because a panel that does not match the county cannot speak for it, and we cannot correct for that without knowing. Trempealeau County is about 12.7 percent Hispanic; if the panel is not, we would rather publish that than quietly weight a handful of people up. We will never publish a breakdown small enough to identify anyone.

Age rangePrefer not to say18-2930-4445-6465+

EducationPrefer not to sayNo degreeHigh schoolSome collegeBachelor's or higher

SexPrefer not to sayFemaleMaleOther

Are you of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?Prefer not to sayYesNo

RacePrefer not to sayWhiteBlack or African AmericanAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeAsianNative Hawaiian or Other Pacific IslanderSome other raceTwo or more races

Keep my address on file so the Pioneer can mail me the print edition and paper surveys.

Leave that unticked and we delete your address as soon as your code is used. Either way it is only ever used for mail from the Pioneer.

Send me a postcard

One thing we cannot do alone

Trempealeau County is 12.7 percent Hispanic. A panel that misses those neighbours cannot speak for the county, and a newspaper postcard is not how most people want to be reached. If you can help us get the word out, write to publisher@trempealeaupioneer.com.