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Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare penalizes hospitals that have too many readmissions, or admissions within 30 days of discharges, for patients with pneumonia, heart attack and heart failure.

The U.S. stock markets have been on a winning roll for nearly six years and local investment professionals and educators don’t see the good times coming to an end any time soon.

When Chris Bauer gave up the life of a leisurely globetrotter to rescue AnchorBank in 2009, he had no inkling it would take so long or be such a struggle to "right the ship." 

Investment pours in but coming years will be key to former industrial corridor.

The retiring Lafayette County sheriff was one of the most respected law enforcement officers in the state. 

UW-Madison's College of Agricultural Life Sciences plans to consolidate its two soil labs at the Soil and Forage Analysis Laboratory located in Marshfield.

Recent court decisions and the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board are fueling calls for an overhaul.

Grothman clearly hasn't spent enough time on Madison's East side if he thinks Obama qualifies as a liberal extremist.

Vos on GAB: ‘Judges will stay’

Mineral Point artist Bruce Howdle is showcasing murals that examine the “modern material world from the non-human perspective,” according to his artist’s statement. Eight murals make up the ex…

As a professional researcher for NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Kersti Niebruegge digs through archive footage for the sake of entertainment. But for her debut novel, her research was mo…

This State Journal editorial ran on Jan. 4, 1904:

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A recent letter to the editor asked: "What is not to like about Obamacare?" The question was followed by a list of possible positive attributes to the “Affordable Care Act.”

In 1947, U.S. historian Wilfred E. Binkley took stock of the 13 men who had been president since the end of the Civil War and reached a stark conclusion: Governorship was “a training school fo…

By the time the Civil War broke out in 1861, the Wisconsin State Journal had been publishing for more than 20 years. But nothing could prepare Wisconsin and its nascent capital city for the ho…

There are times when even the most outdoors-minded person finds gratification by just inhabiting a den, basement, garage or shed and doing extremely repetitive activities.

As a kid growing up in Indiana, I went door to door for George McGovern at the age of 9.

Parents across the land, take heart — I hear it on good account that young-adult video-game obsession is not the end of the world.

WASHINGTON -- I wanted to do something for my country over the holidays, so I went to the movies.