Chris Conley

Morning News Anchor at WSAU-AM (Wausau , WI)

WSAU Wisconsin Morning News anchor, Midwest Communications operations director, news, current events, sports, politics-person.

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Search continues for missing woman

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

LAC DU FLAMBEAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – The search for a missing woman in Lac Du Flambeau continues. 37-year-old Melissa Beson first went missing nearly a month ago and authorities are still searching for leads and answers. “She’s my rock,” said Winny Beson, mother of Melissa. Melissa went missing around her home in Lac Du Flambeau March 17th during the late afternoon.
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Hey public broadcasting, how about using some of the Elmo money?

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – We used to air news stories during the Christmas season about shoppers getting into brawls over the last Tickle Me Elmo. It was the hottest gift for years. At the start of the school year, kids show up at class with their Big Bird lunchboxes. And Bert and Ernie pencil boxes. And Oscar The Grouch jackets and Cookie Monster hats and mittens. And yet we are told that if federal funding goes away, so will Sesame Street.
CONLEY COMMENTARY - The Sacred Heart of Luigi

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – There are some people on the political left who have gone insane. Their thought process is irreparably broken. There’s a large and growing group, mostly of ‘fan girls’, for United Healthcare murder suspect Luigi Mangione. At least 50,000 dream on conjugal visits with the man who killed insurance executive Brian Thompson. Consider this quote from former Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz. Mind you, she is not speaking tongue-in-cheek.
Local girl missing for 10 years

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

ROTHSCHILD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – This year marks 10 years since Mackenzie Marken was reported missing. Next week, April 18th, will mark Mackenzie’s 24th birthday. She was only 14 when she was reported missing on October 12th of 2015. The Mountain Bay Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the case, and is trying to spread the word as much as possible.
CONLEY COMMENTARY - The Stadium Bill

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – The Las Vegas A’s, and the Kansas City Royals had better hurry. They’re the latest baseball teams that are working on new stadium deals. And now Congress is debating a bill that would block public funding for new sports stadiums. It would ban the issuing of tax free municipal bonds. Amen to that. Even small market sports teams are owned by billionaires. In what other business do taxpayers fund the place of business for a private enterprise?
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Friday on Faith: Misunderstood

1 week ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – This will be Palm Sunday. It’s one of the few scenes in the Bible where we see Jesus as triumphant. He is entering Jerusalem and is being cheered by an adoring crowd. Men are placing their outer garments onto the street to guide his way in. Women and children are waving palm branches as he enters the city. I wonder at what point Jesus realizes that his arrival is being misunderstood. Or, at best, misinterpreted. He’s not the Messiah the crowd expected.
Child care roundtable in Wausau

2 weeks ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – The Department of Children and Families stopped by The Marathon County Public Library, to have a roundtable discussion about the future of child care. Local leaders and child care employees gathered to discuss the possibility of child care losing its funding.
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Why can’t anyone build a website that works?

2 weeks ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Maybe you remember when Obamacare was rolled out. People who needed to pick health insurance would log onto the healthcare.gov web site. They’re enter some personal information, and would see the choices and prices of health insurance that was available in your area. You may also remember it was the website that couldn’t. Healthcare.gov was typically overloaded. People couldn’t log in. It showed the wrong choices, or no choices.
CONLEY COMMENTARY - No way to run a railroad

2 weeks ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – You probably know that I’m a lover of trains. I’ve taken two train trips already this year. In coach, from Chicago to New York… and in a sleeping compartment from Chicago to New Orleans. Perhaps you’d heard in the news that the new train from Chicago to Milwaukee and St. Paul – the Borealis – was cancelled for a few days last month because the coaches had to be taken out of service over safety concerns.
Weekend drug bust in Adams County

2 weeks ago | wsau.com | Chris Conley

TOWN OF EASTON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – A weekend traffic stop in Adams County led to a drug bust. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says on Saturday, a deputy pulled over a vehicle on County Highway A in the town of Easton for an equipment violation, and discovered illegal substances. K-9 Tekla was deployed during the stop and alerted deputies to the presence of drugs. A search revealed more than 49 grams of methamphetamine, more than 12 grams of THC, and drug paraphernalia.

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