In Washington, the National Mall has gone quiet. The Blue Angels have flown back to base, the Abrams tanks have been returned to Ft. Stewart in Georgia, and President Trump’s July 4 speech has been debunked by fact-checkers and panned by Russian state-run TV. The memes it inspired might prov…
Two economic stories received big headlines the week of July 4. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high and the economy added 224,000 jobs in June.
After months of telling courts that his administration had a kosher reason for forcing a citizenship question onto the 2020 census while concealing the true rationale—to depress the count in immigrant-rich states—the jig is up.
Ask any parent and they’ll tell you that kids love YouTube.
A spokesperson for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce recently told the Wisconsin State Journal, “We don’t want to make it too comfortable to remain unemployed.” Currently, the maximum weekly unemployment benefit is $370. Who on this planet describes $370 a week as “comfortable”?
We call it the Madison “bubble”—a place where the minutiae of Wisconsin politics plays out all day, every day.
My mom was a working mom before there were really working moms. She went back to school, got another degree in psychology and began a life of juggling her patients, her family and herself. But when I think of my childhood, I have far more memories of my dad. He was the one who taught me to c…
Iowa has never been particularly effective at tooting its own horn. We Iowans are naturally self-deprecating.
Colin Kaepernick may no longer be a quarterback, but he’s calling the plays at Nike. The athletic shoe company was scheduled to release a sneaker featuring the “Betsy Ross flag” this week, but the former San Francisco 49er thought it wasn’t a good idea. The Air Max 1 USA, featuring the Found…
If you’re one of the evidently healthy people who has decided that 50 is the new 40, here’s a dose of sobering news. The big decline in deaths due to heart disease that the U.S. has enjoyed over much of the past century has slowed to a crawl. And for one age group—middle-aged Americans—death…
This week's question addresses the controversial proposal to allow the homeless to park their vehicles overnight at Palmer Park. The Janesville City Council is expected to consider the proposal as soon as its July 22 meeting. Weigh in on this issue through our online poll at GazetteXtra.com.…
A late-night text suggesting “NBCUniversal streaming service and chill?” doesn’t seem quite as inviting as a summons to “Netflix and chill?”, but it’s the future we’re heading toward nonetheless.
The calls to break up Facebook—or at least to consider it—are growing louder by the day. On the left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren got on the antitrust bandwagon early with a plan for dismantling the company and other tech giants, while on the right Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has mused, “Maybe we’…
A Montana judge sentenced a 50-year-old teacher to only 30 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old student (who later committed suicide), and the judge defended his decision by saying that the girl was “older than her chronological age.”
At North Bend High School in Oregon, gay and lesbian students were bullied with homophobic slurs. A transgender student had food thrown at them. According to The New York Times, when LGBTQ students got in trouble, their punishment was reading from the Bible. Students who tried to report hara…
It took Marianne Williamson wading into bizarre references about New Zealand, the moon and the power of love for me to realize something: The GOP made the right decision in their own overpopulated primary on the road to 2016. Not in whom they chose, of course, but in how they chose.
The Supreme Court has made a decision on the 2020 census that could be very good for millions of Americans: It ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose agency oversees the Census Bureau, acted illegally in adding a citizenship question that threatened to result in a large undercount …
The Trump administration continued to nibble away Monday at the problem of high health care costs, unveiling a set of proposals to bring more transparency to the industry’s byzantine pricing practices.
A new Gallup poll says 23% of Americans believe immigration is the most important problem facing the nation. That number’s been rising and is now at the highest level since Gallup began recording mentions of the issue in 1993.
I would be totally remiss at this time if I didn’t publicly share the passion so many people have expressed in regard to their cherished time with Skip Bliss, his family and The Gazette. Without question, everybody has gotten it right.
What do Shopko, Sears, JCPenney, Pick ‘n Save, Toys ‘R’ Us, Kmart and Boston Store have in common? Besides closing Janesville stores, all paid The Gazette to distribute advertising inserts.
In late June of 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Manhattan where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people would congregate. On the night of the raid, patrons fought back and days of riots ensued.
Judging by its first six months, 2019 has been a banner year for marijuana policy reform.
Elizabeth Warren fans rejoice: The Massachusetts senator and surging presidential candidate just nabbed the top seed in the easiest, breeziest debate bracket possible.
It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is trying to eviscerate the Obama-era Clean Energy Plan with a completely inadequate substitute that has far lower targets for reducing carbon emissions from the power sector. Trump has been trying to undo as much of his predecessor’s legacy as possible.
Among the panoply of giveaways promised by this election cycle’s field of Democrats is free college. At least 15 candidates are all in and chances are that number will increase.
It was known as the “tanker war.” In 1987, Iran wreaked havoc on global energy supplies moving through the Strait of Hormuz, using mines to attack Kuwaiti oil tankers and eventually triggering direct conflict between U.S. naval forces and Iranian vessels. The U.S. estimated that Iran had att…
In early June, Diane Mueller fled her flooded home near St. Louis, for the second time in two years. She hopes it won’t happen again.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes recently made the argument in the New York Times for the break up of the social media giant by arguing it has become a dangerous monopoly that places too much power and influence in the hands of one company and one person (his former Harvard roommate, Mark Zu…
Since Day One, I’ve said I would work with anyone to get results for southeast Wisconsin and the American people. Five months into my first term in office, that motive hasn’t changed.
I would like to respond to Sports Editor Eric Schmoldt’s June 9 column, “Making it to state is one tough assignment.”
June 21 (the summer solstice) is World Humanist Day—a day when people of goodwill globally aim to transcend their differences and put human values above dogma and superstition.
Bernie Sanders is confused. Again.
Some brave hetero activists are attempting to organize a “Straight Pride Parade” in Boston.
Repealing the 2017 tax cuts would not just hurt the wealthy and corporations. It would also leave middle-class Americans tens of thousands of dollars poorer.
Ten Democratic state attorneys general on Tuesday sued to block T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint, and the timing was no coincidence. The Justice Department will soon make its decision on the merger, and Democrats, unions and big business are lining up to defeat it at the expense of America’s le…
During the 2004 presidential campaign, you could buy a pair of flip-flop sandals bearing the image of John Kerry. The product was a droll dig at the Democratic nominee’s penchant for changing his positions—on the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, NAFTA and more. The senator didn’t help himself with…
For anyone who values the importance of direct citizen input in government—and we do—there was an anniversary recently that should not go unnoticed.
From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but rowdy beer halls.
In the wake of the tragic shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that claimed the lives of 12 people, Gov. Ralph Northam has called for a special legislative session to address gun-related violence. Using the shooting as a call to action, he then proposed a variety of restrictions on lawful g…
Racism is often viewed as an action performed by individuals. But even if we got rid of all America’s prejudiced individuals, racism would still exist in the systems they built.
