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OUR VIEW: Members show they’re more interested in playing politics than settling disputes fairly or holding leaders accountable

Admittedly, it's a savvy bit of political triangulation.

Tuille and grosgrain ribbon sounds like the makings of an elegant Victorian ball gown. Printer Katherine Kuehn did not create a ball gown, but instead used the ribbon as a foundation for an art piece in her exhibit “Close Reading:…

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HONOLULU – So much for scouting.

Entrepreneurs respond to the latest study by the Kauffman Foundation.

Behind senior Izzy Owca’s record-setting performance, the Madison Memorial girls cross country team opened the season with a narrow — but satisfying — victory in the Glenn Herold Invitational on Saturday at Watertown.

Pittsburgh scores five runs off the right-hander in the fourth inning.

The fullback position was a strength for the University of Wisconsin football team last season, with eventual sixth-round NFL draft pick Derek Watt leading a group that also included veteran Derek Straus and a talented third option in Austin Ramesh.

The University of Wisconsin football team has nearly filled its 2017 recruiting class before the start of the season, and the Badgers are already working on 2018.

Residents nearby the Fitchburg house explosion are trying to move forward from the event while debris and rubble remains in sight.

Rain disrupted some plans for the new event on Madison's Southwest Side, but organizers pushed through to provide a community-building festival.

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At this time last year, Alex Moderski was preparing to start her high school swimming career at McFarland.

After a fifth consecutive season in which the Green Bay Packers reached the NFL playoffs only to fall tantalizingly short of the Super Bowl, the residents of Packers Nation are getting restless.

Higher education institutions are evaluated on the quality of their graduates. But administrators have figured out the easiest way to control the output is to control the input -- luring students with a beautiful campus, famous faculty and resort-like amenities.

I listened to a Donald Trump speech on CNN last week. I have to admit it was a good speech, unlike what I have heard him say previously.

The liberal, candy-store political philosophy is perilous. But history and $19 trillion in debt don’t much influence voters.

An Aug. 21 letter to the editor suggested that Jesus might be pro-life even though, as the letter states, "abortion is not spoken about in the Gospels."

It's tragic that Milwaukee is the latest city to see rioting because of the fatal shooting of a young black man by a police officer.