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Chris Rickert: Straight couples owe it to gay couples to just get married already
In the parlance of the civil rights movement, domestic partnerships were a separate but unequal accommodation.
Pro golf: Tiger Woods progressing, but return uncertain
Woods, who underwent two back surgeries last fall, said he’s getting stronger and hitting the ball better.
Brewers: Jeremy Jeffress has been a saving grace this season
The first baseman halts a 0-for-23 skid with a 443-foot home run and later adds the go-ahead RBI double.
Prep roundup: Middleton baseball team tops La Follette with four-run rally in seventh
Schwoerer wins the 200- and 400-meter dashes; Jefferson wins the girls team title as Mikaela Grant wins four events.
Prep softball: Sun Prairie scores 10 runs in the third to dispatch Middleton
The Big Eight game, called by the 10-run rule in the fifth inning, could boost Sun Prairie's WIAA seeding chances.
Prep boys golf: More mature, yet fun-loving approach has Madison Memorial's Jacob O'Loughlin soaring high
The senior will lead the improved Spartans into the Big Eight Conference meet on Thursday, followed by the WIAA postseason.
Local leaders offer ideas to combat recent violence
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson said it's time for elected officials to stop "over-studying" issues of racial disparities and start funding solutions to them.
Alliant Energy Center committee shrugs off private development proposal
The committee overseeing planning for the county-owned campus expressed little interest in endorsing the $52 million housing and retail project proposed for part of it.
'Gun violence' isn't worse than other violence -- Cal Donovitch
The State Journal has demonstrated a lack of journalistic integrity by its constant use of the term "gun violence," as opposed to simply calling violence what it is: violence. This is politically charged speech and a change from normal reporting…
Hands cartoon insulted trade workers -- Ken Leifheit
Phil Hands' overzealous desire to bad mouth Republicans in general and Gov. Scott Walker in particular led him to create the insulting cartoon in Friday's State Journal. It was apparently meant to belittle his favorite targets, but instead he made…
Nuns have more fun than Catholic priests -- M.A. Rakow
Monday's editorial page had another letter to the editor about girls, the Catholic priesthood and how Bishop Robert Morlino promotes girls' vocations. It was titled "Bishop Morlino is following the rules."
Walker drives down quality of universities -- George Savage
I admire Gov. Scott Walker for his chutzpah and for his Machiavellian grasp of politics. These two qualities coalesce in his recent tweets chiding faculty for their no-confidence votes, and for not taking equally strong action against tuition increases.
State farmers worried that last week's frost damaged newly emerged crops
Spring planting is ahead of schedule in much of the state
StartingBlock project moves forward, but without maker space Sector67
Instead, Sector67 is pursuing a new space of its own and StartingBlock will likely have a smaller, cleaner "fab lab."
Badgers men's basketball: Wisconsin's Nigel Hayes still undecided on returning for senior season
Hayes, who has not signed with an agent, has until May 25 to withdraw his name from the NBA Draft and return to school without losing NCAA eligibility.
Judge denies motion from New Glarus Home embezzler to order DA to produce documents
Joyce Ziehli denied opportunity to receive key records
UW-Stout faculty join in no confidence votes
Six of the UW System's 13 campuses have now seen faculty members approve votes of no confidence in the system's Board of Regents and President Ray Cross.
Ron Johnson says he wasn't making 9/11 comparison
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is defending his discussion of the vote taken by passengers aboard the hijacked United Flight 93 on 9/11 in the context of the upcoming November election, calling those who have criticized him over his remarks "political…
Former Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson embellished some details in his commencement speech
Some of the details from his 18-minute speech at Camp Randall may have been exaggerated or embellished.