The breakthrough Hollywood film about the Asian experience, told from an Asian perspective, featuring an Asian cast, could have been about the cruel exploitation of Chinese workers in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
I am a developer in the city of Janesville and have worked on numerous projects over the last 25 years including the Kmart/Festival redevelopment, Oasis/Menards redevelopment, Castle Metals, Upper Lakes Foods, IPM Foods and ANGI Energy Systems to name a few. I read the editorial Aug. 4 about…
“For many years ... I never rested,” Ray Stannard Baker wrote more than a century ago. “I neither thought nor reflected. I had no pleasure, even though I pursued it fiercely during the brief respite of vacations. Through many feverish years I did not work: I merely produced.”
Trends are not something I would say I’m great at predicting. Years ago, when I was passing the Empire State Building, two tourists asked me whether I’d take their picture. “Sure,” I said. One handed me a phone.
I’m trying to understand how this will go down.
Listen in on any parent-teacher conference and you'll hear teachers asking, "What is your most pressing concern for your child?" Nine times out of 10, parents of elementary-school students will answer: "I want him/her to read better."
I don’t like being the guy to “beat a dead horse,” but a news story last month continues to nag me. I think I’m bothered by it because of the societal message it seemed to send in its resolution and not so much as the actual outcome.
Of course, Facebook, YouTube and other media are free to ban conspiracy-mongers such as Alex Jones from their platforms. They have a right to dictate the contours of permissible speech on their sites and to enforce those standards dutifully or hypocritically or ideologically, using any metho…
As thousands of tourists crowded into the center of town in search of hearty laughs, I walked over to Lake View Cemetery for a look at Lucy's grave.
I’ve encountered a few residents in person and several online who state that one (or all three) were done in a vacuum with no input. They want the removal of the council and administration. That’s just plain wrong.
Childhood anxiety is giving us anxiety. Nearly a third of American adolescents meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even among younger kids, anxiety is on the rise. But as my Let Grow co-founder, Boston College psychology pro…
The legendary lawmaker Mike Ellis will be honored Tuesday in Neenah, where he was born 77 years ago and whose values he championed every day he came to the Capitol from 1970 until 2014. Ellis died July 20.
Jeffrey Whitman feels he got a raw deal.
Have you heard? A woman who recently ran for president got nearly 3 million more votes than Donald Trump. Only the Electoral College—actually, a few thousand ballots in three key states—delivered the presidency to the current POTUS. And that was with an assist from Russia.
A July 29 report by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism revealed a disagreement on election security. Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell told a reporter that future elections will be protected because the voting machines are not directly connected to the internet.
American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin officials say Wisconsin is a textbook example of the ACLU’s new emphasis on political advocacy.
Mr. Rogers was the host of a half-hour of calm for kids from 1968 until 2001. On other channels you could find flying squirrels, falling pianos and grouches in garbage cans.
“Imagine the earth beneath you opening up and swallowing you whole. Imagine feeling everything good inside you—love, joy, kindness, trust, security, hope—burning and scorching to embers, giving way to fear, desperation, anguish and helplessness. Imagine being trapped in your worst nightmare,…
One of the great lies of modern politics is that when a policy fails, it’s because someone just didn’t care enough.
I have been asked for my reaction to the destruction of the Monterey Dam. A friend of mine, yes I still have a few, asked me for my first thought when I saw the giant sucking sight of the machine punching a hole in the dam.
On the same day that Venezuela’s “democratically” elected socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, whose once-wealthy nation now has citizens foraging for food, announced he was lopping five zeros off the country’s currency to create a “stable financial and monetary system,” Meghan McCain of “Th…
The pollsters at Pew recently reported that 68 percent of Americans are suffering from news exhaustion, and that jibes with what I witness on an anecdotal basis. I don’t presume to everyone, but many of you probably agree that conversations with friends these days are sometimes strained. The…
It didn't take long after the Helsinki summit for European and American media publications to declare Donald Trump Vladimir Putin's pet dog.
With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predecessors were able to accomplish: He has turned Democrats into Russia hawks.
It's both the greatest social-justice opportunity and the worst privacy-gutting curse of our times: a high-powered video camera in nearly every human hand.
I would not normally recommend a book on the history of the universe as beach reading. But David Christian's "Origin Story" is a welcome exception.
When the world's leaders gather at Davos, they talk about business, society and the future. This year, they took time to talk about a surprising economic priority:
The Office of the State Treasurer has only one employee—the treasurer—who works in a basement Capitol office. A sign—“open” or “closed”—could be posted on the door.
This week, The Washington Post published an op-ed headlined "It's not wrong to compare Trump's America to the Holocaust." As with similar examples of this genre, it's a sickening display of moral relativism that belittles the suffering and murder of millions in the service of some shortsight…
The new rising star of the Democratic Party is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 28-year-old former bartender doesn’t know much about politics—this week, she bungled her way through an interview answer by referring to Israeli “occupation” of Palestine and citing her lack of expertise on the issu…
“Lawmakers in both major parties and former intelligence officials appeared shocked ...”
Why didn’t the American men’s soccer team qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
Democratic Congressman Mark Pocan represents a Madison-dominated district that is one of the safest for Democrats in the nation. He got 68 percent of the vote two years ago and has no Republican challenger this year.
Let's say you're the president of the United States and want to keep the country safe. But data from the Department of Defense shows that a stunning 71 percent of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are unable to join the military because they are too overweight, are poorly educated or have a record of crime or drug abuse.
In these warm Ohio months, when my daughter was an infant, I’d strap her into the stroller most evenings and take her for a long walk before bedtime.
A deeply humane friend recently suggested that medics stop saving people on their third opioid overdose. The subject was naloxone, a medication that can yank users from the jaws of death. It can be given via Narcan nasal spray or injection.
Sure, some of the anger aimed at Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is partisan bluster meant to placate the activist base. Still, most Democrats were going to get hysterical about any pick because any conservative pick was going to take the Constitution far to…
How many times have you heard someone say, “I didn’t do it, but I will agree to pay off my accuser just to get this matter settled so I can move on.”?
As President Trump put Germany and other allies on notice for the harm they are doing to NATO with their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, Democrats in Washington came to Germany's defense.
This week, amid widespread Democratic tumult regarding the selection of a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, alleged comedian Michelle Wolf paid tribute to the most important facet of American life: abortion. On her Netflix show on Sunday, Wolf dressed up in red, white an…
