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Recently I’ve gone to two protests in Janesville. The signs that protestors carry are varied and some address Christian values and some ask “W…
On this Fourth of July, we honor our nation by displaying our stars and stripes our red white and blue. . We sing patriotic songs to honor tho…
Elon Musk has finally done something predictable (for a gazillionaire with a political itch, that is): He says he’s launching a third party de…
It won't make American Players Theatre's stage, but this year’s Capitol version of State Budget Deal was a five-act drama that took 18 months …
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of health and human services, everyone knew he was capable of doing great damage. He had a …
This townie has been busy over the last few months and I’ve slacked on my writing.
The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community, national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform — scouts, firefighters and polic…
Milton Avenue, from Mount Zion Avenue northward to Humes Road, is a product of its time, rapidly built out in the 1970s and 1980s, spurred by …
Closing in on a century since its building on Dodge Street opened in 1926, and 135 years since the organization was founded in Janesville in 1…
Janesville has a lot of people who humbly make a difference. Their grounded leadership deeply drives the trajectory of the community, and they…
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Fifty-five years ago this week, the first Earth Day was organized by then-U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, of Wisconsin, as a rallying cry for stewar…
The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community, national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform — scouts, firefighters and polic…
Americans can be forgiven for feeling a bit exhausted by the head-spinning pace of events in the Middle East.
Promising an apocalypse by the ayatollahs who were getting ever closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon to carry out that diabolical wish, Israel…
Hurricane Beryl, a relatively weak storm, caused at least $1.5 billion in direct damage in Texas in July 2024. It was just one of the 27 billi…
Before this Saturday’s enormous nationwide No Kings protests, Leah Greenberg, a founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the demonstra…
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Shame on you, Wisconsin DNR.
The history of the United States includes some horrible things. Many of these horrible things have been repeated. We fail to learn from our fa…
When Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government the Constitutional Convention adopted, his cautionary response was, "A republic, if y…
Accessible, affordable child care is a foundational element of a thriving local economy. Child care enables parents to fully participate in th…
Please join the newspapers of Wisconsin in thanking the Wisconsin State Senate for supporting transparency in government.

On May 15, the Sena…
Some comments and thoughts about "No Kings" protests to upstage and draw attention away from honoring the United States Army 250th anniversary…
We are witnessing Gestapo tactics in California under the guise of immigration enforcement. ICE agents are going to workplaces, homeless shelt…
Milton Avenue, from Mount Zion Avenue northward to Humes Road, is a product of its time, rapidly built out in the 1970s and 1980s, spurred by …
Apart from feeding ourselves and procreating, is there any compulsion more fundamental to our human character than fighting among ourselves?
Promising an apocalypse by the ayatollahs who were getting ever closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon to carry out that diabolical wish, Israel…
It’s one step forward, two steps back.
Before this Saturday’s enormous nationwide No Kings protests, Leah Greenberg, a founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the demonstra…
It’s how the Capitol works: A deadlock over the request of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $4.6 billion more on just three programs let Re…
House Republicans’ reconciliation bill seeks to pay for $5 trillion of tax cuts by slashing health-care spending, potentially leaving millions…
For those who are paying attention and care at all about human decency, the Trump administration’s political chaos and social instability is a…
He called me on a cold and snowy Saturday morning to ask if I would like to go for a ride in his Snow Cat.
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Five years is a blink in American history— a nation built on contradiction, striving, and unfinished business. It was five years ago that a Mi…
Since Donald Trump was elected again, I’ve feared one scenario above all others: that he’d call out the military against people protesting his…