Political Quotes

“I rise today to honor a distinguished citizen of Wisconsin, Ronald Alan McCrea, who passed away in Madison on Dec. 14, 2019. McCrea's career included praiseworthy journalism, architectural scholarship on Frank Lloyd Wright, and gay activism. Ron McCrea came from a family of journalists. His grandfather, Archie McCrea, was editor of the Muskegon Chronicle in Michigan, and his father was an editor for the Saginaw News and Toledo Blade. Ron began his journalism career editing his high school paper, the Arthur Hill News. He would also edit the Albion College Pleiad. He worked at the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Washington Star, the Long Island Newsday, and the San Jose Mercury News. Ron was one of the outstanding journalists in Madison, where he served as an editor and reporter at the Capital Times from 1970 to 1977 and again from 1998 to 2008. While in Madison, he was also an editor of the Press Connection from 1977 to 1980, the paper that emerged from a newspaper strike that he helped lead. Ron graduated from Albion College in 1965 with a B.A. in political science. He was awarded an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and did further graduate work at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.…”