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Exact Sciences was a failing public company when Kevin Conroy and Maneesh Arora moved it from Massachusetts to Madison. The payoff has not only been huge for Dane County, but for the rest of Wisconsin, as well.
The time has come to embrace a new kind of redistricting made possible by recent advances in computer technology. In 2026, Wisconsin can become the first state to do redistricting right.
Out of 68 cases of election fraud in Wisconsin listed in the Heritage database, only one involved an immigrant, for a rate of 1.5%.
Van Orden turned his back on Wisconsinites by voting for the Big Beautiful Bill.
For generations, Wisconsin farmers have built more than businesses — they’ve built legacies.
For many, his voice is woven into memories of early mornings in the barn, long drives down county roads, and kitchen radios humming beside a pot of coffee. He represented a kind of broadcasting that felt personal, because it was. It was rooted in place, in people, and in purpose.
Teachers who have fled a school or the profession altogether — and there are many of them in Wisconsin nowadays — often do so reluctantly and only after tremendous sacrifice and reflection.
A study done by the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership affirms that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a significant ideological diversity problem among its faculty.
It is customary for a state’s U.S. senators to work together in recommending occupants of certain federal positions. Wisconsin, however, is graced with two senators who couldn’t agree on the time of day.
The 7th CD caucus, comprised of 20-plus county GOP parties, declined to endorse anyone for the open coongressional seat at a March 14 endorsement event.
I can tell you one thing: This is not how Judge Chris Taylor is going to earn my vote.
Courts are often the last resort for protecting our freedoms. That’s why it’s essential to vote on April 7 and to elect a proven champion for our rights as Supreme Court justice. That’s Judge Chris Taylor.
Spring election gives some conservative communities chance to finally get conservative leadership
Recent reporting by Dairyland Sentinel has raised deeply troubling questions about how Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is handling federal special education dollars. Particularly, scarce funds that are supposed to directly support students with disabilities, including children with Autism.
In the last two years, Americans have seen the first-, second-, and third-ever homicide prosecutions and convictions focused on the parents of school shooters.
It’s ebbed and flowed since the 1960s, as state politicians tried different solutions.
Do you want your tax dollars to help pay Luke Fickell’s salary? That’s essentially the question before the state Senate.
A revival of nuclear fission in Wisconsin may be under way. Policymakers in state government have opened that door, and one of the state’s largest electricity wholesalers recently took a step toward walking through.
I cannot stop this war. What I can do is refuse to be silent in my own community, to say clearly, from someone who wore this country’s uniform, that what is being done in our name deserves to be seen, and questioned, and grieved.
Wars deserve more than improvisation and insouciance. They deserve the full weight of presidential responsibility. And they deserve a public argument worthy of the cost.
Exact Sciences was a failing public company when Kevin Conroy and Maneesh Arora moved it from Massachusetts to Madison. The payoff has not only been huge for Dane County, but for the rest of Wisconsin, as well.
The time has come to embrace a new kind of redistricting made possible by recent advances in computer technology. In 2026, Wisconsin can become the first state to do redistricting right.
Out of 68 cases of election fraud in Wisconsin listed in the Heritage database, only one involved an immigrant, for a rate of 1.5%.
Van Orden turned his back on Wisconsinites by voting for the Big Beautiful Bill.
For generations, Wisconsin farmers have built more than businesses — they’ve built legacies.
For many, his voice is woven into memories of early mornings in the barn, long drives down county roads, and kitchen radios humming beside a pot of coffee. He represented a kind of broadcasting that felt personal, because it was. It was rooted in place, in people, and in purpose.
Teachers who have fled a school or the profession altogether — and there are many of them in Wisconsin nowadays — often do so reluctantly and only after tremendous sacrifice and reflection.
A study done by the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership affirms that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a significant ideological diversity problem among its faculty.
It is customary for a state’s U.S. senators to work together in recommending occupants of certain federal positions. Wisconsin, however, is graced with two senators who couldn’t agree on the time of day.
The 7th CD caucus, comprised of 20-plus county GOP parties, declined to endorse anyone for the open coongressional seat at a March 14 endorsement event.
I can tell you one thing: This is not how Judge Chris Taylor is going to earn my vote.
Courts are often the last resort for protecting our freedoms. That’s why it’s essential to vote on April 7 and to elect a proven champion for our rights as Supreme Court justice. That’s Judge Chris Taylor.
Spring election gives some conservative communities chance to finally get conservative leadership
Recent reporting by Dairyland Sentinel has raised deeply troubling questions about how Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is handling federal special education dollars. Particularly, scarce funds that are supposed to directly support students with disabilities, including children with Autism.
In the last two years, Americans have seen the first-, second-, and third-ever homicide prosecutions and convictions focused on the parents of school shooters.
It’s ebbed and flowed since the 1960s, as state politicians tried different solutions.
Do you want your tax dollars to help pay Luke Fickell’s salary? That’s essentially the question before the state Senate.
A revival of nuclear fission in Wisconsin may be under way. Policymakers in state government have opened that door, and one of the state’s largest electricity wholesalers recently took a step toward walking through.
I cannot stop this war. What I can do is refuse to be silent in my own community, to say clearly, from someone who wore this country’s uniform, that what is being done in our name deserves to be seen, and questioned, and grieved.
Wars deserve more than improvisation and insouciance. They deserve the full weight of presidential responsibility. And they deserve a public argument worthy of the cost.
