Courts
The circuit court, filing by filing
Sentencings, caseload pressure, and the procedural mechanics that decide outcomes — including how one county court came to carry among the heaviest filing loads in Wisconsin.
Published Work
Writing
The published work of William Horschak — accountability reporting at the Trempealeau Pioneer, analytical essays on hospitality revenue, open records, and civic technology, and years of sports journalism.
Journalism
Reporting the courts and county government at the Trempealeau Pioneer
William Horschak founded and publishes the Trempealeau Pioneer, an independent monthly in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, and writes its courts and county-government beat himself. The reporting works from the primary record — filings, ordinances, and produced records — rather than from another outlet’s summary.
County government
Where state law and county code collide
Reporting on who actually holds authority when a state statute and a county ordinance give different answers — the kind of dispute that decides an office and never reaches regional news.
Public records
Stories built on the underlying documents
Requests filed, productions read closely, and the distance between what was asked for and what was released treated as part of the story rather than a footnote.
Published
Essays
Writing grounded in first-hand work — and in one habit across all of it: read the evidence honestly and let the data, not instinct, settle the call.
In development
More pieces are being drafted now, each from first-hand work — hotels run in destination markets, records requests drafted and tracked, and civic-technology products in active design.
Revenue StrategyIn development
Group business displacement math every operator should run
Group and tour contracts look like guaranteed revenue until they displace higher-rated transient demand on compressed nights. The arithmetic for deciding when to say yes, and at what rate.
Hospitality OperationsIn development
What national-park hotels teach about leading under compression
Destination markets like Yellowstone and Yosemite run at or near nightly capacity in season. Lessons on staffing, guest-service recovery, and decision-making when there is no slack in the system.
Open RecordsIn development
A requester’s checklist: custodians, deadlines, and clean productions
Requester-side fundamentals: identifying the right custodian, drafting precise requests, tracking deadlines, preserving communications, and keeping productions organized from day one.
Open GovernanceIn development
From documents to knowledge: organizing public records people can use
A stack of PDFs is not transparency. How indexing, gap analysis, and careful records organization convert raw productions into civic documentation citizens can actually navigate.
Civic TechnologyIn development
What requester-side software should actually do
Most records tooling is built for agencies, not citizens. Notes toward requester-side software: drafting support, deadline tracking, communication preservation, and records organization in one workflow.
Sports Journalism
Bylines at The Sports Judge, since 2008
Before the essays, there were the sports columns. William Horschak writes at The Sports Judge — the publication he founded as The Sports Jury and rebuilt from the Internet Archive — where his byline has drawn nearly 1.7 million reader views across 53 stories.
1.7M
Reader views
Across William Horschak’s byline at The Sports Judge.
53
Published stories
Game analysis, opinion, power rankings, and features.
2008
Writing since
From the original Sports Jury era to today’s revival.
Professional inquiries
William is available for professional inquiries related to hospitality revenue strategy, open-records research, civic-transparency tools, web ventures, and business-development concepts.