Jon Anne Willow

Jon Anne Willow is an award-winning writer and editor, and the co-founder of VITAL Source Magazine and ThirdCoast Digest. She also pops up occasionally on WTMJ-4 as a guest commentator on "What's Hot" and "Sunday Insights."


June 29, 2015 Magazine, Point of View

Q&A: Kathy Mykleby

After almost 40 years in the business, Kathy Mykleby is Milwaukee’s matriarch of broadcast news. But how relevant is a TV news anchor these days? Is Milwaukee a good news town? Absolutely. And that’s probably because we’ve had the benefit of being at the center of the news of the nation. We have continued to matter even though our market has shrunk. I always think there can be a Wisconsin connection to any story, and I’m hardly ever wrong. In your early days in Milwaukee, you got passed up for promotions repeatedly. Has it been frustrating, trying to find your…

January 28, 2015 Feature Story

The New Entrepreneurs

They turned half-baked ideas into successful startups, took complicated problems and invented new technologies. Curious to see how far they could go, these 12 business visionaries set a path for others to follow.

August 25, 2014 Feature Story

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Illustration by Daniel Downey. The sun was sinking low in the hazy Iowa summer sky, but I wouldn’t come inside. My 6-year-old hair, laboriously combed into two long pigtails, now stuck to my face in the heat, the long-sleeved blouse patterned with Alice in Wonderland characters clung to my skinny back. I had insisted on wearing it because I thought my dad would like it. He had a black-light mural in a similar design on his apartment wall. My mom came out on the porch. Wearily, she sat down beside me and put her arm around my shoulders. I shrank…