Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes could decide the presidency. And with a 0.7% win in 2016, if Donald Trump loses just a fraction of the rural vote, he’s in trouble.
“I really do believe I can hit the ground running,” Sally Rohrer said.
Ghanian artist Eric Adjetey Anang will be the first artist in residence at Thurber Park. During his residency he will build new coffins and other artwork.
It's time for another season of the podcast that brings you all the best conversations from the Cap Times' two-day festival on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
I call people like Scott Walker a "pretend" Christian — you know, the kind who make a big deal about going to church every Sunday and then do everything contrary to what Christ preached during the rest of the week.
The school district is doing the right thing in giving the West High security guard his job back. Next it needs to rethink its “zero tolerance” policy regarding racial slurs.
The meeting will take place Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in room 201 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Paid family leave can be a necessary ingredient to help reduce Wisconsin’s black infant and maternal mortality crisis and provide much needed economic security to families across our state.
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The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District will host the national Minority Student Achievement Network student conference on Wednesday through Saturday.
Window collisions are a leading cause of bird deaths.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services was supposed to put in place the new drug screening, testing and treatment requirements by Oct. 1.
Two of the incidents last year in which a Madison Metropolitan School District staff member was disciplined for using a racial slur are currently being appealed, Madison Teachers Inc. executive director Doug Keillor said Tuesday.
Stations are operating with reduced broadcasting power until work on the transmitting tower is done.
If this security guard can engage disrespectful students who call him the N-word in “restorative conversations,” should we expect anything less from our elected school boards in Madison and Middleton?
Feast, a performative dinner at Morris Ramen, was structured around a taboo subject: menstruation. Each course included nutrients present in menstrual blood.
Often maligned, Rockford is the subject of a whimsical new book, and the Illinois city delivers its civic boosterism with passion and good humor.
As a member of the House's oversight committee, Elijah Cummings called out Scott Walker for denying that he had a political agenda when he attacked public employee unions.
Vasser's story is emblematic of a system that too often punishes people for years after their sentences end and cheats them of opportunities to become productive citizens.
I call people like Scott Walker a "pretend" Christian — you know, the kind who make a big deal about going to church every Sunday and then do everything contrary to what Christ preached during the rest of the week.
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ABC for Health, located at the corner of North Bassett and West Mifflin streets, is seeking public input to help refresh the mural on its Mifflin Street facade. According to the mural project website, the goal "is to identify public art to adorn our wall, that commemorates the culture and tr…
Abigail Becker joined The Capital Times in 2016, where she primarily covers city and county government. She previously worked for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the Wisconsin State Journal.
Lindsay Christians has been writing about the fine arts, food and wine for The Capital Times since 2008. She has a masters in theater research from UW-Madison and hosts the food podcast The Corner Table. Find her at @LindsayC608.
Steven Elbow joined The Capital Times in 1999 and has covered law enforcement in addition to city, county and state government. He has also worked for the Portage Daily Register and has written for the Isthmus weekly newspaper in Madison.
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Scott Girard is the local k-12 education reporter at the Cap Times. A Madison native, he joined the paper in 2019 after working for six years for Unified Newspaper Group, including coverage of the Verona Area School District. Follow him on Twitter @sgirard9.
Jason Joyce took over as news editor of The Capital Times in 2013.
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