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The Ways and Means Committee chairman told the EU it better not try to create improper barriers to block exports of U.S. dairy products

You will know if you have seen me smile, I’ve never lingered long in the company of orthodontists. Over time my teeth have proven to be serviceable and strong, but cosmetically speaking, are a…

Is the ground temperature changing?

After Madison got 9.2 inches of snow recently, the city received 233 complaints about locations that had not been shoveled.

A veteran Wisconsin journalist writes about his last trip to the Boundary Waters.

The future of Fitchburg Days, the city’s annual festival dating back to the 1970s, is in doubt and the event’s organizer says it’s because of a personal political conflict.

One day in about 2005, novelist Harper Lee was having breakfast at a diner near her Alabama home when a fan, apologizing for the intrusion, approached to express admiration for Lee’s sole work…

Play-calling duties have been handled by coach Mike McCarthy.

I call it the Secret Knowledge.

Honors: Stacey Garbarski, a senior Theatre Arts major at Edgewood College, and her scene partner Leigha Sander won the Irene Ryan Dramatist Guild Award for Excellence in a Performance from a N…

Isaac Jordan secured a decision in the penultimate match to keep victory within reach, but the University of Wisconsin wrestling team couldn’t complete a late comeback Sunday afternoon, fallin…

Kyle Connor scored a pair of goals, and the struggling Madison Capitols had no answer for the visiting Youngstown Phantoms, falling 5-0 in a U.S. Hockey League game on Sunday at the Dane Count…

The senior scores a career-high 30 points, with 13 of them coming during a 19-2 second-half run.

Gov. Scott Walker's budget move striking the Wisconsin Idea from the state statues is more than a cynical sucker punch to "Madison liberals." It is part of Walker's full-scale offensive on the…

Public education is one of the great American designs. Thomas Jefferson wrote that public schooling would help “rake a few geniuses from the rubbish” leading to an informed voting base and str…

Gov. Scott Walker proposed changing the UW''s  mission statement, deleting the “Wisconsin Idea” and replacing it with a mandate to provide an education meeting the state's “workforce needs.” T…

Whenever a government entity refers to sending our military troops overseas to fight, they invariably talk about "boots on the ground."

Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to change the language of the University of Wisconsin System mission statement, its articulation of the Wisconsin Idea of outreach to the state, has prompted a huge…

The mission statement of the University of Wisconsin System contains some lofty goals, but also some glaring omissions.

I am happy to see that Wisconsin Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, is again going to introduce tougher drunken driving laws for Wisconsin. He introduced a package of laws last session that would have ch…