Pitches from three young companies hoping to capture a bite of the growing pet market are among the 24 five-minute presentations that will take place Nov. 8-9 at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison, where they will compete with innovations in artificial intelligence, medical devices, manufacturing, workforce solutions and energy for the attention of early stage investors.

Gov. Tony Evers and UW President Jay Rothman are getting successive black eyes for unimaginative strategic leadership as they close UW colleges, one or two at a time. That’s the wrong answer, and it’s dumb politics.

The Crisis Now! Model incorporates local, regional facilities that are designed to be a “one-stop shop” for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and will accept both voluntary and involuntary individuals for short-term stays.

Sen. Chris Larson’s campaign finance reform package is a step in the right direction.

I refuse to dishonor my ancestors by not telling their truths. All of us, adults and children alike, deserve to learn what really happened in the past and not manufactured myths. Our cultural lies have been told for so long that they have created a fake reality in the minds of far too many Americans.

Joe Biden is in Democrats’ cross hairs. The man is not long for the presidential ballot.

More and more prominent Democrats — including some in unexpected places — are making support for labor central to their campaigning and to their governing, following the lead of longtime labor backers such as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin.

The world’s greatest peacemakers all have keenly understood that where there is no justice there will be no peace, so they all have been social justice warriors. There is a lineage of peacemaking combatants.

The month of November has been set aside to honor and remember those saints of African descent who have been canonized and those on the road to canonization. Of those that are saints, there are only 937 saints of African descent, and no Black Americans have been canonized to date.

Court decisions on unstaffed ballot ‘drop boxes’ and more.

While many news reports and pundits have voiced the fact that we are a year away from the 2024 presidential election, the major broadcasts have paid scant attention to what is being offered voters in several states come Tuesday.

While the Wisconsin Department of Corrections does not use slave labor, they are legally permitted to do so under current law.

It’s a travesty that Planned Parenthood couldn’t resist the urge to restart abortions.

Campuses are closing and the system faces open hostility from the Republican Legislature.

We showed government can work.

The United Auto Workers’ “Stand Up Strike” win is the most important union victory for regular folks in a generation.

Congressman Bryan Steil is still waiting to hear back from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about his request to please make it clear Milwaukee does not have to run “The Hop” streetcar through a closed construction site on Sundays — and Sundays only — during the winter in order to meet the requirements of a federal grant.

History proves that a ceasefire only serves to help the enemy by giving them time to re-group and then attack again, plus re-arm. There should be no pause in the defense of Israel.

What happened on Oct. 7 is the direct consequence of a long-standing oppressive colonial system inflicted by Israel’s apartheid regime.