Best of the Northland

Barbara Reyelts (KBJR)

Every year we have this category and year after year we shake our heads at all the votes that come in for Barbara Reyelts. Before there was voting online, we received numerous paper ballots voting her worst. Now, the online votes AND paper ballots stack up overwhelmingly for her. We’re left with questions about whether we should just pull the category entirely because Barbara will keep “winning” it or just hope that someday a more worthy TV personality will step up to the plate and garner as much unwanted recognition as she has. Can’t you all pick on someone else one of these years?

Runner Up: Ken Kratz. Ken Kratz isn’t really a TV personality, he’s a lawyer. We would have not even mentioned the votes for him other than he is a key figure as a District Attorney for Calumet County, Wisconsin in the Netflix crime documentary Making A Murderer and now happens to practice in Superior. In other words, he is local and has been featured on a well watched show that came out in the last year.