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Madison Style: Saving wildflowers through jewelry
Lori Marshall Ford is exploring new fields in business — new fields of flowers. Texas wildflowers were a mainstay in creating her Wildflowyr Jewelry line, and now she is exploring using Wisconsin wildflowers. Last February, she and her three younger…
State malpractice fund made 17 payments in 2012-2016
Wisconsin’s Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund made 17 payments in 16 cases from fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2016, which ended June 30. The fund will offer compensation only after payment from a health care provider reaches $1 million, meaning…
Payments by state malpractice fund dropping
A $1.2 billion state-run fund for large medical malpractice awards has seen a significant drop in payments to injured patients in recent years, contributing to a $813 million surplus that is more than twice what regulators recommend, a State Journal…
Author’s latest a Tufa fantasy fit for the stage
The mysterious Tufa are back. The reclusive mountain dwellers of East Tennessee, a creation of the mind of Mount Horeb author Alex Bledsoe, return with theatrical flair in the fourth book in Bledsoe’s Tufa series, “Chapel of Ease.”
Safe Communities to host workshop on preventing falls
September is Falls Prevention Month, and Safe Communities Madison-Dane County is hosting a prevention seminar to help people ages 60 and older prevent life-threatening falls.
Balancing Act: Latest Leslie Jones attack should be our cue to speak up
I have astonishment fatigue.
On Wisconsin: Johnson Creek domed and ready and more could be on the way
The middle and high school open under five domes on the village's west side.
Garden calendar | For the week of Sept. 11
Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.
Finance startup will cancel that subscription for you
PHILADELPHIA — At 26, Thomas Smyth and Daniel Petkevich are millennials whose startup speaks to what they say is a truth about their age group:
Where you'll 'stay forever and wish it were longer': Madison's neighborhoods in 30 words
We take our neighborhoods for granted, as if they’ve always been there. But someone set out to form each one of them, drawing a line around a coherent space — typically defined by natural or man-made boundaries — and recruiting…
Diversity the one constant in Madison's neighborhoods
Sometimes it can seem like the only thing Madison's more than 125 neighborhoods have in common is how different they are from each other.
Hands on Wisconsin: Fifteen years after 9/11 it's clear the terrorist haven't won
The fact that 15 years after one of the most violent days in American history most of us our more concerned about football, shows that the terrorists didn't win.
Chris Rickert: Free police for your parade? You must be smoking something
Exempting the pot smokers from having to pay for traffic control for their march up State Street might seem like the cool thing to do.
While working life was dull for some, many chart a better course for retirement
MINNEAPOLIS — Jim Johnson worked decades for Northwestern National Life Insurance, followed by a few years at Allianz Life North America.
UW's gaze into future instructive
OUR VIEW: Every public institution in Wisconsin should plan far ahead — even if the politicians can’t see past their next election
On View | 'FAÇADES: Photographs by Markus Brunetti'
A German photographer set off across Europe in 2005 on a one-year project to capture the facades of historic cathedrals, churches, and cloisters in minute detail. Eleven years later, Markus Brunetti’s project has become an open-ended journey.
Historic worship spaces serve as landmarks and statements of dedication
The buildings that remain intact are few and far between, but have unique histories that make them worth protecting.
Summitt Credit Union finds branch traffic robust even as online banking grows
Electronic banking is gaining in popularity — mobile deposits, money transfers, bill pay, among other options. But still vacant lots are filling with new brick-and-mortar branches of banks and credit unions.
Packers: Aaron Rodgers should test Jaguars' revamped secondary
Jacksonville's revamped secondary, which includes rookie cornerback Jalen Ramsey and two more newcomers, faces arguably the toughest test possible in the season opener.
Packers: 3 keys to today's game vs. Jaguars
The Packers open the season at noon today at Jacksonville.