The school board should not underestimate the value of building trust and understanding between cultures.
Here's some advice for the media covering President Trump: If you don't want to be accused of reporting fake news, don't report fake news.
Wildwood Theatres Movies 16, a cinema complex on Janesville’s north side, wants to apply for a liquor license, but it can’t under current city ordinance.
City staff leading the Monterey Area River Restoration project awoke on Friday morning confused by The Gazette’s editorial that further muddied the waters of the MARR project by failing to present all the facts.
How long has it been since McDonald’s had a truly great jingle? Longer than it takes a nugget to turn into a rock.
Since President Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 and announced his bid for the Oval Office, left-wing media have waged an extreme and never-ending smear campaign against him in a deliberate attempt to discredit him as the leader of the Republican Party—and keep Democrats …
The number of Americans without health insurance rose last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and Democrats say this justifies more government control. Yet the reality is more complicated—in particular, note that having a Medicaid card is no guarantee of great medical care.
In May, as the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee considered a plan to spend far less on education than what Democrat Gov. Tony Evers proposed, Sheila Plotkin started filing public records requests.
The city owes the public answers on how it's going to resolve Monterey lagoon issues.
My Facebook feed often carries pictures of children whom I don’t know and, in the case of sonograms, who aren’t even born yet. They are strangers to me, albeit cute strangers. If I’m very close to the sender, I’ll respond in a private message, “That’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen,”…
The Donald Trump campaign said, “Who’s going to pay for it?”
Kids are sneaking hits from it in school bathrooms. Students younger than eighth grade are trying it. Kids are selling their belongings to buy it. Wisconsin is the epicenter of the e-cigarette epidemic.
It’s now been nearly a full generation since Sept. 11, 2001. There are people currently serving in the U.S. military who weren’t born when that act of evil took place—and the military still has thousands of troops in Afghanistan, the home base of the Taliban-supported al Qaida attack on the …
Wisconsin needs a chief law enforcement officer who is fully empowered to do his job. Yet, Attorney General Josh Kaul is hamstrung by legislative Republicans.
Imagine if, back in 2011, President Barack Obama had not only withdrawn all U.S. forces from Iraq, facilitating the rise of the Islamic State, but also invited Islamic State leaders to Camp David to sign an agreement cementing his withdrawal plan.
Tobacco ads have been banned from TV for about 50 years. But not e-cigarette products, which can still be marketed as a “safe tobacco alternative.”
Here's a crazy idea for reducing traffic congestion at Janesville schools: Encourage parents to make their kids walk to school.
I grew up in southeast Wisconsin and frequently notice in your news the mention of various people driving MULTIPLE times under the influence. What's wrong here? Once, shame on you. Twice, shame on me. Three times, perhaps a mandatory 5 to 10 years behind bars. Your voters and local citizens …
Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.
It is my opinion that the city of Janesville needs to start cracking down on vehicles that are running red lights on Milton Avenue. This has been a longtime occurrence that just keeps getting worse. I was driving on Milton Avenue the other day when the light turned yellow. I slowed down and …
The now-former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab went from hero to zero in a couple of news cycles. Once heralded for overseeing projects that use technology for social good, Joichi Ito resigned after revelations that he had tried to hide the source of donations fro…
Thumbs down to Evansville school officials skipping forum, to Beverly Kopper's mysterious paid leave. Thumbs up to to leaving alone the public comment period, liquor license recommendation for movie theaters.
Now that the high school kids running the Legislature have dispelled any lingering illusions that they have any principles other than electioneering, office holding and power grabbing, they have apparently failed to even consider the most important thing left to do: Change the name of the st…
Is the recent and rapid increase in the size of Americans’ waistlines a public health crisis or a social justice anti-discrimination issue? If our changing culture steers us toward the latter—and to some degree, it is—perhaps we’ll see fewer aggressive public health campaigns and more battle…
As someone who has worked for more than two decades in public health education and nursing, I find the federal government’s continued reluctance to relax laws regarding marijuana difficult to accept.
My friend Michelle’s preschool daughter has autism. Every morning Michelle brings her into school, where the staff takes the time to teach the kids with special needs how to get their boots off, how to stuff their mittens in their pockets, how to hang their coats on the pegs, etc., etc.
If you’re going to lie, make it a good one.
When it comes to monitoring for suicide, we should never downplay the warning signs.
For some students, school is the only place that will offer two meals each weekday and the support of adults who are able to meet their academic and emotional needs with predictable routines.
Midway between the second and third Democratic presidential debates, we should pause to take stock of what we’ve seen. Eight moderators have grilled more than 20 candidates for nine hours on national television. Yet, the most interesting part of it all is that more than two dozen candidates …
One wishes the media would stop using absurdly lazy phrases like “mandatory gun buybacks.” Unless the politician they’re talking about is in the business of selling firearms, it’s impossible for him to “buy back” anything. No government official—not Joe Biden, not Beto O’Rourke, not any of t…
Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick was defrocked in February and ordered by Pope Francis to live a "life of prayer and penance." It seems the message did not get through. McCarrick, it turns out, is unrepentant.
I read with interest your Friday story (Page 1A) about the housing crunch in Rock County. After living in Rock County most of my life and owner of housing businesses that have built more than 1,000 homes in Rock County over the last 55 years, I feel qualified to comment on this crunch.
There are alarming consequences for the survival of human beings and the success of the society they inhabit when the brain suffers without treatment. And it has become frighteningly common for Americans to find their way into despair and self-murder.
Thank you to the Janesville Police Department for stepping up awareness and enforcement of pedestrian safety and right-of-way, letting drivers of vehicles know that ignoring such rules should have consequences. I really do appreciate the effort and wanted to thank you because I was walking a…
The man Trump charged with protecting our public lands doesn’t believe we should have any.
With Democrats pushing to implement the radical Green New Deal to allegedly “save the planet” from extinction, Americans should demand that every politician who backs it sign a pledge to dramatically reduce their own carbon footprint and live by the same rules and standards they want foisted…
