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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 , where he also worked for the student newspaper ''The Daily Cardinal''. 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,'' a weekly newspaper. Lahey's editorial cartoons on local, regional and national politics, the Green Bay Packers , world events, and much more appeared in the ''Brown County Chronicle'' and after 1976, its daily successor, '' The Green Bay News-Chronicle '', from 1968 through 2005. He was also editor of ''The News-Chronicle's'' commentary pages until 1996. A major topic of interest for him has always been Environmental issues, for which he has won awards. Lahey is in many ways a Wisconsin version of Chicago's Mike Royko - an independent, often controversial (especially regarding church-state issues), usually cynical commentator on events and public people. 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). In 2005, "The News-Chronicle" was closed by its new owner, Gannett , which bought the paper 11 months earlier. In early 2006, Lahey started creating new political cartoons on his Web site at {Link without Title} . He does three new cartoons a week. |
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