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Wisconsin’s use of private school vouchers is expanding, and more Dane County institutions are following the lead of ...
Nearly a dozen current and former employees say Davis discriminated against women and people with disabilities. Davis denies ...
Funded by a state grant, the heavy-duty surveillance device aims to help deputies remotely transmit information without ...
This state of affairs first hit me during the 2024 spring election. The presidential primary had no real significance: Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the deeply unpopular frontrunners, had all but ...
Without costumes and sets, the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to “Porgy and Bess” may not have looked like the opera — but it sounded and felt like it, owing to the transportive power of the ...
Dear Editor: Volume of container ships from Asian countries (primarily China) is expected to drop 35% on the West Coast in the next few months due to Donald Trump's trade policies. Average tariff ...
Madison elected officials were once distinguished by political ideologies, but they are increasingly being elevated to power and judged by how they respond to community-oriented issues like housing, ...
This phrase is believed to be an ancient Chinese curse. Apparently, someone cursed America because we’re living in catastrophically interesting times. In reality, our current affliction came courtesy ...
British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle greatly raised the prestige of the lowly detective story with his fictional alter ego, Sherlock Holmes. One of Holmes’ most brilliant insights concerned something ...
Ten minutes before the curtain rose on “Don Giovanni” in Overture Hall on May 2, an email dropped into the inbox of Madison Opera general director Kathryn Smith. The opera’s $25,000 grant from the ...
A longtime after-school program that served thousands of children across Dane County is ending after the federal government abruptly pulled funding for AmeriCorps initiatives nationwide. Since 2006, ...
Dear Editor: I am baffled and disappointed that the hierchy of the Catholic Church refuses to allow women to become deacons or priests or bishops. The church refuses to allow women any position of ...