Can we finally nix the myth that what this nation needs is a businessman who will “run America like a business”? If mining magnate Herbert Hoo…
I’m getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week – just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home – and I cannot wait t…
After the current census is completed the Wisconsin Legislature will draw political district maps - voting maps - used in future elections. In…
I have been to a couple of this year’s Portage Farmers Markets and am disappointed to see so few vendors wearing masks. I realize Portage and …
As concern over the impact of COVID-19 on prison populations began to mount, the federal Bureau of Prisons implemented a ban in March that pro…
Now that many states are reopening for business, it feels like we are returning to some semblance of normalcy. Scratch the surface of this new…
After a recent surge in coronavirus cases, Dane County is requiring everyone to wear masks indoors in public places. There are still some ninc…
It’s hard to decide what was most appalling about President Donald Trump’s two speeches over the Independence Day weekend. Was it his intentio…
It wasn’t just Wall Street titans and national retail chains that accepted federal pandemic money meant for smaller, more vulnerable economic …
The Trump Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on June 25 to kill Obamacare. This has long been a foolish, foolhardy obsession for Presi…
The collapse of police-reform legislation in the U.S. Senate last week has drawn a pox-on-both-their-houses condemnation of Democrats and Repu…
In this country, we have plenty of offensive symbols of our racist past. We don’t have to invent any.
When Sept. 3 comes, it will have been 5½ months since students were last in school.
I’m getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week – just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home – and I cannot wait t…
As concern over the impact of COVID-19 on prison populations began to mount, the federal Bureau of Prisons implemented a ban in March that pro…
Now that many states are reopening for business, it feels like we are returning to some semblance of normalcy. Scratch the surface of this new…
The recent spike in U.S. COVID-19 infections has mercifully been accompanied by a declining death count. There were days in the spring when th…
Online schooling has failed. American schools need to reopen in the fall. It has now become obvious that the steady diet of online instruction…
Congressional Republicans put out a clear message recently: Face masks are OK. You should wear one. The concerted effort, reluctantly joined b…
The calls for real transformation of policing are urgent and needed, but not enough. Transformation can start, but not end, there. The police,…
Regarding the article about the public hearing held by the Columbus City Council on the removal of the city’s Columbus statue: One of the comm…
This is a reply to my friend Jack Sanderson’s column about the Columbus statue on the west side of our fair city. No one can question the hist…
Dave Wester's letter of June 23 accused every Trump supporter of being gullible and by inference totally stupid.
Beaver Dam needs people, businesses for energy cause
I see Brett Favre has compared Colin Kaepernick to Pat Tillman. He said they should both be recognized as heroes. For those that have never he…
My great grandsons usually had a birthday party on the same day because their birthdays are so close together. However, this year there would …
Take a close look at bullying