
Bruce Thompson: What Tuesday’s election tells us
The run-up to this election raises several ongoing issues for Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
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The run-up to this election raises several ongoing issues for Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

Former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new book, “The Art of Power,” shows what makes her great.

Wisconsin’s highest court goes outside its authority to create a fast track to insecure elections.

We are getting this much attention because it is now undeniable that we are the most purple region in the country.

Walz stopped his Eau Claire speech to check after an attendee overcome by sweltering heat.

Tim Walz gives Trump a better chance to win.

Groundwork for Foxconn deal was essential.

Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.

City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies

Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.

The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.

Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.

Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
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Six Madison-area startup companies will compete later this month for the chance to meet with Silicon Valley venture capital firms in the fall. This year’s Pressure Chamber competition, hosted by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, is taking place Aug.

The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.

54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.

We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.

Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.

The run-up to this election raises several ongoing issues for Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

Former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new book, “The Art of Power,” shows what makes her great.

Wisconsin’s highest court goes outside its authority to create a fast track to insecure elections.

We are getting this much attention because it is now undeniable that we are the most purple region in the country.

Walz stopped his Eau Claire speech to check after an attendee overcome by sweltering heat.

Tim Walz gives Trump a better chance to win.

Groundwork for Foxconn deal was essential.

Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.

City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies

Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.

The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.

Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.

Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
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Six Madison-area startup companies will compete later this month for the chance to meet with Silicon Valley venture capital firms in the fall. This year’s Pressure Chamber competition, hosted by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, is taking place Aug. 20 as part of Forward Festival. This annual celebration of

The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.

54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.

We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.

Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.