The state Department of Public Instruction recently released new data on enrollment trends in Wisconsin’s private school choice programs.
When I announced my candidacy for lieutenant governor back in 2010, I knew the campaign would be grueling with early mornings, late nights and relentless meetings. It’s enough to wear anyone down.
When you give to the Madison Public Schools Foundation’s Teacher Support Network, your generosity doesn’t just get spent — it gets multiplied.
This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 24, 1925, hours before Wisconsin’s football team beat Purdue 7-0 and went on that season to tie Minnesota 12-12 and defeat Iowa 6-0, Michigan State 21-10 and Chicago 20-7 for a 6-1-1 record.
Among the many dangerous actions President Donald Trump has taken, his push to force some of the country’s best universities into signing a sweeping federal “compact” ranks just behind his pardons for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
American universities are at a crossroads.
The U.S. Department of Defense — newly renamed the Department of War by the Trump administration — has opted to wage its first war of the new era not on the battlefield but within the bowels of the Pentagon pressroom.
I don't get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime.
The only thing the parties can agree on is that President Donald Trump is the central issue of our time.
🎧 A foggy morning, two deer and a forgotten phone spark reflection on humility, awareness and the art of paying genuine attention.
Being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be. As Bloomberg News recently reported, almost one-fifth of U.S. households have a net worth of more than $1 million. Fully one-third of them have gained that status since 2017.
During the 2013 government shutdown, I happened to be in Philadelphia. I was surprised to find that the Liberty Bell — which sits in its own little room with big windows — was “closed.” You could stand there and look at it, but only through tourist-smudged glass.
We spend a lot of time talking about the problem of polarization in today’s politics. But if you get right down to it, most of that happens, well, at the fringes — either end of the pole, if you will.
Some of America’s worst presidents in terms of domestic leadership have succeeded spectacularly on the world stage.
Police officers should be out in the community protecting the public, not wasting hours of their time in emergency rooms.
Remember Wisconsin’s 27-10 loss to Maryland on Sept. 20 at Camp Randall Stadium?
Ten years ago this month, our editorial board insisted the “Dane County Coliseum is ripe for a remake.”
Here are five reasons the Madison School Board should reject a proposal tonight to nearly double its pay for members from $8,000 a year to $15,000 while also giving board members health and dental insurance:
The state Department of Public Instruction recently released new data on enrollment trends in Wisconsin’s private school choice programs.
When I announced my candidacy for lieutenant governor back in 2010, I knew the campaign would be grueling with early mornings, late nights and relentless meetings. It’s enough to wear anyone down.
When you give to the Madison Public Schools Foundation’s Teacher Support Network, your generosity doesn’t just get spent — it gets multiplied.
This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 24, 1925, hours before Wisconsin’s football team beat Purdue 7-0 and went on that season to tie Minnesota 12-12 and defeat Iowa 6-0, Michigan State 21-10 and Chicago 20-7 for a 6-1-1 record.
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Three proposed amendments are before the Dane County Board that would significantly reduce the number of Dane County sheriff’s deputies and hand the savings of about $3.7 million over to the city of Madison for services for homeless single men.
I’m writing in response to the dueling op-eds on passenger rail in the State Journal on Oct. 20: “High-speed rail can transform America” by Andy Kunz, and “Bullet trains are expensive fantasy” by Baruch Feigenbaum.
I have lived in three capital cities: Albany, New York; Sacramento, California; and now Madison. Madison is set apart from the other places I have lived by the ongoing philanthropy of residents who have helped create and sustain the city’s cultural institutions.
America was established almost 250 years ago based on becoming a democratic republic that represents the rights and freedoms of all citizens. We are supposed to be governed by a Constitution that is based on three separate and independent branches of authority: the legislative, judicial and …