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Lyle Lahey's humorous and acerbic comments on local, regional and national politics, the Green Bay Packers , world events, and much more appeared in the Brown County Chronicle and its successor, The Green Bay News Chronicle, from 1968 through 2005.

Lyle Lahey

Lahey was born in 1931 in Abrams, Wisconsin. After a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Korea, he completed a degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lahey served 13 years as a promotion manager at WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Then in 1968, Lahey began contributing editorial cartoons to the Brown County Chronicle. In 1976 he began serving as the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay News-Chronicle, where he was also editor of the commentary pages until 1996.

In 1997, The News-Chronicle published The Packer Chronicles, a collection of Lahey's cartoons about Green Bay's hometown football team (the players, the coaches, and the fans).

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Monday, May 22, 2006 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW, e-mail us Lyle Lahey launches political Web site Political cartoonist Lahey returns with brand new cartoons three times a week. Green Bay, Wis. -- Long-time political cartoonist Lyle Lahey, a 38-year award-winning veteran of incisive and often controversial political commentary in Wisconsin, has moved to the World Wide Web with the launch of his own Web site at www.weimar.ws/lahey/. Lahey was the daily editorial cartoonist of the Green Bay News-Chronicle until that paper closed in 2005. Now, his cartoons will continue to feed his fans' hunger for independent commentary with Lahey's trademark fearlessness about sacred cows. "With all the wackiness permeating our land, I could restrain myself no longer," says Lahey. "Get my take on things three times a week on www.weimar.ws/lahey/." If you are looking for hard-hitting editorial cartoons that won't offend anyone, well, Lyle Lahey still hasn't mastered that last part. But he has built his reputation on stating his viewpoint regardless of conventional wisdom. Lahey's Web site had a "soft launch" in mid-March, 2006, In the first month of its existence, Lahey has taken on Karl Rove. President Bush (rather often), environmental degradation, and even Katie Couric. And the rest of 2006 promises to be ripe for Lahey's sharp pen, with Congressional elections, presidential approval ratings flatlining, an ongoing war, a feckless and corrupt Congress, and global warming all on the front pages. ABOUT LYLE LAHEY Lyle Lahey is a legend in northeastern Wisconsin. In 1976 he began serving as the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay News-Chronicle, where he was also editor of the commentary pages until 1996. His cartoons had also appeared in the News-Chronicle's predecessor, the Brown County Chronicle, since 1968. His independent-minded cartoons appeared every day in the paper, drawing a legion of loyal fans and, naturally, critics. In 1997, the News-Chronicle published The Packer Chronicles (ISBN 0965977404), a collection of Lahey's cartoons about Green Bay's hometown football team. Lahey's popular cartoons -- cited by many a subscriber as the reason they read the News-Chronicle -- continued to appear daily in the paper until the News-Chronicle closed in 2005. Lyle Lahey lives in the Green Bay suburb of Allouez with his wife, Carol Holt Lahey. His Web site is at http://www.weimar.ws/lahey/ ###

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