The Big Idea

The Big Idea

Posted on Nov. 27, 2024 by Grace Olson

Each December, we highlight big things happening in the Fox Cities: new buildings, innovative organizations, changes and events that are impacting the people and the spaces in our communities. This year, we decided to take inspiration from the issue name: The Big Idea. What do our leaders think could be the next big thing? Whether READ MORE

Forty Years of Fox Cities Magazine: Our Story

Marvin J. Murphy & Ruth Ann Heeter Life is an accident waiting to happen. The crash experience of the economy in the early 1980s sent interest rates on the inventory of our machinery company to 25%. Under capitalized, we failed. Marvin’s background in machinery and Ruth Ann’s in communications left us both talented and unemployed. READ MORE

The Big Idea(s)

Posted on Nov. 30, 2022 by Grace Olson

The communities that make up the Fox Cities are collectively impressive, but have their own projects and big ideas to help continue to catapult the area into further greatness.
 From play to practical, below are those big ideas: Appleton
 Mayor Jake Woodford Looking ahead to 2023, one of the biggest ideas for the City of READ MORE

Taking off!

Posted on Dec. 1, 2021 by Grace Olson

Area airports offer first-class service at a whole new level July 2019 was a great year for aviation. Passenger numbers were high and overall, worldwide airports were on the right trajectory. But like many industries, it has its ups and downs (pun intended). There’s a cycle that experts say happens approximately every ten years, lending READ MORE