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Artist breaks free from rules that don't exist
Author, artist and speaker Jason Kotecki is kind of obsessed with rules. Particularly, the ones that don’t actually exist.
Get a taste of the real orchard experience
The State Journal Book Club’s summer pick, “The Cherry Harvest” by Lucy Sanna, may get readers in the mood to visit the lush scenery of Door County, and maybe even romanticize a summer spent u…
In the Spirit: Madison Catholic Diocese ordains largest class of new priests in 42 years
The class also is the most diverse in the diocese's history, with the six seminarians hailing from four continents.
On Wisconsin: No residents but a campus remains
Work is underway to determine a new use for the 400-acre Bethesda campus in Watertown.
Balancing Act: Can't calculate a parent's worth
You know those infuriating surveys that attach a dollar figure to the work parents do at home?
Just Read It | Andrea Potos
Just Read It is a regular feature in which the State Journal seeks recommendations from authors, literary enthusiasts and experts, focused on the contributor’s particular genre of expertise.
On View | Jessica Calderwood -- 'Fictitious Florals'
Combining flower/botanical forms with human body parts, Jessica Calderwood addresses the narrative of human life cycles — growth, metamorphosis, aging, and death — in an absurd manner.
Madison Style: Much more than yarn
The Knitting Tree may be a hangout for Madison knitters, a sleek new space where they can gather and talk projects and exotic yarn.
Prison guard suspended for Facebook post
Visser shared the image in the comments section of a newspaper's Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Week in Review 7-5
Still no state budget
UW Hospital a leader in alternative to brain death organ donation
Kiley Hackl, a fitness buff, was in a kickboxing class in Sun Prairie when she collapsed.
Doctors seek organ donation from deaths outside of hospitals
Less than 2 percent of the 2.6 million Americans who die each year qualify for organ donation, largely because most people die outside of hospitals and hospital deaths generally are required f…
Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries
When Henry Mackaman got his driver’s license, he registered to be an organ donor.
Scott Walker hopes to turn Midwest roots into campaign strategy
Walker is selling himself as the one GOP candidate who can deliver key Midwestern states to the GOP column in 2016.
Madison-area apartment construction still booming
Amenity-rich luxury apartments in Downtown Madison dominate, driven mostly by well-paid Millennials.
Madison slated for more than 5,500 new apartments through 2017
Heavy demand from Millennials and others is driving more units and steadily rising rents, especially Downtown.
Verona, home of Epic Systems, bucks apartment trend with limiting policy
Despite its limit of 25 to 50 new units per year, the city was recently deemed a "hot submarket" for apartments.
Sweeping secrecy is big mistake
Republicans are supposed to be suspicious of big government.
End state's witless attempt to hide public records
OUR VIEW: Any politician who continues to support similar attacks on Wisconsin's open records law will never receive the State Journal's endorsement
Chris Rickert: Unconventional school board risks little backlash in Madison
Clearly, Madison School Board members are not afraid to act boldly or defy convention.
