My takeaway lessons from John Powless include cherishing friends, enjoying the ride, embracing competition, and looking for the good in people. I hope you have a friend or two who have that kind of impact on you.

It’s time for equity in women’s sports.

A freeze cannot go on forever, especially with costs for materials, labor, and energy headed upwards and fears of broader inflation on the horizon driven by Washington spending. However, a good amount of that spending is going to backstop losses by colleges and universities. That leads us to wonder whether now is the right time to unfreeze tuition.

Emotion and politics—not science and common sense—were clearly driving the nationwide push for mandatory mask-wearing, and even Fauci succumbed to it. Now, though, science is starting to prove that masks did nothing more than make the public feel a little better.

It’s no secret that I have a lot of issues with critical race theory, but efforts by state legislatures to prohibit it are a mistake.

It’s head-spinning to listen to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

So it came as a surprise to some customers of the UW Credit Union last month when this also venerable institution announced it was inserting arbitration into its membership agreements.

The notion that Reagan was universally acclaimed as the statesmanlike exemplar of Republican and/or Conservative values and principles during his own day can only lodge itself inside the head of a person who was politically unaware back in Reagan’s day — or has never studied the period.

The proposed state budget for schools passed by the Legislature’s budget committee is so stingy, the federal government is seriously considering withdrawing $1.5 billion from our state because we don’t make an adequate investment in our own kids.

By adopting strong recusal rules, reinstituting public financing of elections, limiting campaign spending and enhancing disclosure we can reclaim our courts at all levels.

A chance to get it right on the front end.

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ends this practice and will finally start to demilitarize our police departments.

In 1920, African-Americans owned some 14% of the farms in the United States. Today, thanks to a century of racial discrimination, from land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and governmental farm services refusing to consider them for loans or other financial assistance, that number has dropped to just 1.4%.