From topics including Downtown homelessness and Madison schools to Scott Walker and the GAB, State Journal columnist Chris Rickert has tackled…
For most of us — especially those of us with aging bladders — feeling the urge in the middle of the night is a problem easily solved: Get up, …
Imagine you're a West Side Madison voter whose local polling place is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Election Day.
If you would have asked me a week ago what country's citizens own the most land in Wisconsin, I would have guessed Canada, or maybe China.
Since Sarah Manski dropped out of the Madison School Board race two days after winning her primary, she’s been pilloried not only by the schoo…
Government was a big theme in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget address. So I'm a little confused that his administration is proposing gov…
It's ironic that democracy activist Sarah Manski would run for the Madison School Board knowing that if she won, she might have to resign befo…
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Faced with the prospect of just closing my eyes and randomly pointing to names on a ballot, I decided to try to find out if there were any sub…
To (badly) paraphrase Shakespeare, the poor, by any other name, would have as little money.
It was the spelling error that caught my attention Wednesday in a story about the release of records in the Madison School District's superint…
The bomb Scott Walker dropped Monday wasn't as explosive as the one he dropped two years ago to largely end public-sector collective bargainin…
As if our political leaders needed any more reason to just go ahead and adopt a single-payer health care system already, check out the contrad…
Would it be sacrilegious to say business was booming last week on the corner where the Rev. Andy Jones was offering interested passers-by an e…
At first blush, amending the state's founding document to protect something as pedestrian as funding for the Department of Transportation just…
Shortly after Madison schools superintendent Dan Nerad resigned last year, School Board member Ed Hughes told me that when it comes to the Mad…
It's probably not very wise — or polite — to ask too many questions when, after years of trying to get government to pay more attention to you…
Republicans, after two years largely spent ramming major bills through the Legislature, are going soft.
It was only a matter of time before Walter Milton Jr., candidate for Madison schools superintendent, dropped out of the running.
This is what I get for paying attention to perhaps Wisconsin's most-ignored state officeholder.
I’ve read at least one story by UW-Madison English professor Lorrie Moore — “How to Be an Other Woman.”
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It’s bad enough that the city’s need for more affordable housing and an endorsement from city staff weren’t enough to make the faith-based, an…
Extreme partisan goofiness tends to beget more extreme partisan goofiness — also known (to me at least) as EPG.
Warner Park area residents eager to get rid of Madison's annual Rhythm & Booms fireworks celebration — and especially the noise, potential…
Madison learned last week that it might not be able to blame its long-standing achievement gap on outsiders, as a school district analysis of …
In a city that pretty much everybody agrees needs more affordable housing, how should new proposals for such housing be measured?
The sugar glider might sound like something sold on a stick in the frozen confectionery aisle of the supermarket, but it's actually a native o…
State Capitol protests sure do make for some strange bedfellows.
