Apocalypse, Rapture, Judgment Day, Armageddon, Doomsday, Tribulation – whatever you want to call it, many people believe in an end-of-days scenario lurking on mankind’s horizon. Thanks in part to...

Dear Editor, Sarah Blaskey’s article on the current budget situation (“Crisis mode,” March 30, 2011) provides a good overview of the difficult decisions that are being made at Madison Area Technical...

Dear Editor, In college I read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. It was not an enjoyable book. It chronicled the conditions in which immigrants worked in Chicago, during the turn of the twentieth...

“We The People” have the privilege of electing leaders who best reflect our views. Except we don’t. We vote along party lines instead of electing politicians who best represent our views. It seems...

Good and fair democratic government is fueled by the public’s belief and trust in the transparency of that government. Remove that transparency and that trust and accountability is lost. To maintain...

Cutting funding for educational institutions like Madison Area Technical College, in exchange for corporate tax breaks, is a short-term budget fix that will negatively affect local economies and have long-term...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan was a controlled atomic bomb in a bottle. Then the ground shook, a tsunami hit, and the bottle cracked. Recent disasters around the globe have reaffirmed...

It’s about time someone had the guts to cut the recycling out of our state’s local municipalities budget. The fact that local municipalities were mandated to hold a recycling program is absurd. Recycling...

Ladies watch out. We are under attack again. If you are a female in your twenties you are a prime target. If you are an ethnic minority as well as a young woman, consider yourself public enemy number one. This...

“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making,” Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire, once said. So have been the past few weeks in Madison...

Dear Editor, I am a student and a parent. I do not agree with Gov. Scott Walker and the ideas he is putting forth. He is going too far in this so-called budget repair bill and the fiscal budget itself. ...

In only 235 years, our country was born, grew, flourished and now is dying. America’s upswing was because of great people who united and led Americans to greatness and freedom. The death of this country...