Health officials nationwide warned this summer about the potential for a “twindemic” of flu and COVID-19 that would have been catastrophic to …
If we don’t know what gerrymandering looks like, the People’s Maps Commission will do its best to make it clear.
Rock Haven administrators were getting lots of heat for their vaccination policy, but remarkably the county board with its action Jan. 28 mana…
The Janesville City Council did the right thing Monday when it eliminated the city’s quota on class A liquor licenses.
Even if you’re not a fan of the Trump administration, you have to appreciate the small miracle delivered by Operation Warp Speed of helping ma…
The Janesville City Council is considering creating a transportation utility that would collect fees based on the number of vehicle trips take…
The public needs relief — not everyone, just the minority who've experienced the pandemic most acutely.
Believe it or not, it appears the Monterey Hotel soon will be filled with people again.
Like the town folk in the beloved Dr. Seuss book, people here aren’t letting COVID steal Christmas. On the contrary, generosity and the holida…
Both the Janesville School Board and the Janesville City Council will have openings because incumbents are not seeking re-election. The presid…
Where is Eric Trump’s follow-up tweet explaining that he made a mistake, admitting that he was propagating fake news?
Body cameras will provide an additional layer of protection for deputies and the people they deal with.
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For a nation that supposedly believes in democracy, America spends a lot of time trying to kill it.
As we age, several things occur: Death is no longer a curiosity; “old” becomes older and older; and people younger than 50 all seem like teenagers.
Shaina Bell, the 24-year-old Ohio mom arrested for leaving her kids in a Motel 6 room while she worked her evening shift at a Little Caesars, …
Republican Sen. John Cornyn is very upset about Neera Tanden, the well-qualified woman tapped by President Joe Biden to run the Office of Mana…
The Biden administration’s “American Rescue Plan,” a $1.9 trillion relief package, has prompted intense debate, especially its proposal to rai…
Public notices have been around since the first Congress, and newspapers have been the designated recipient of public notices since the beginn…
Three out of every four lawmakers who went through the historical Act 10 fight exactly one decade ago are no longer in the Legislature. So whe…
The 2020 presidential election basically shows how many Americans would like to vote in elections. When added together, the vote total was a r…
With more than 500,000 American families mourning the loss of loved ones to COVID-19 over the past year, we're on pace to easily surpass the 6…
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Gov. Tony Evers and many other Wisconsinites are promoting the unlimited sale and use of marijuana with no regard for the negative consequence…
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My legislators, Sen. Steve Nass and Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, voted to end Gov. Tony Evers' health emergency declarations and mask mandates in resp…
I grew up in the Springbrook area of Janesville the first 12 years of my life. My father grew up down there also and managed Harder's Cycle Sa…
I read the Friday Gazette’s opinion article on the use of masks to prevent COVID-19. I think the more likely reason for our current decline in…
Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is one of the Republican legislators who called for entire states to be disenfranchised.
If you want the Wisconsin Legislature to operate in an open and transparent manner, there’s a provision tucked in Gov. Tony Evers’ budget that…
The pandemic undoubtedly wreaked some form of havoc on just about everyone’s life. But statistics are piling up showing that it has hurt women…
President Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominations had been moving forward pretty well until the past few days. Now they’ve run into trouble. Neera Tan…
Three weeks after they took control of Myanmar by toppling its democratically elected government, the country’s generals are struggling to ret…
Gov. Tony Evers’ state budget is strewn with wish-list policy items that fellow Democrats would love, such as repealing his predecessor’s unio…
Thirty years ago Wednesday—Feb. 24, 1991—I crossed into Iraq aboard my M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank as the “ground war” of Operation Desert St…
Proposed for consideration of adoption by the Rock County Board and Janesville City Council:
The internet has been an enormous blessing to many industries. The newspaper business is not one of them.
