An Associated Press story from the other day caught my eye. It was about a controversy stemming from a new policy limiting how much a student can borrow under federally supported student loan programs.

The deer hunt may represent bloodthirsty slaughter for some, but those who grew up hunting know a moment like this is a chance to teach deep life lessons.

In my first year as State Senator, I’ve learned so much about District 14 and the people living within it. While these have been really tumultuous times, they have also revealed so much goodness, and that deserves highlighting at the end of 2025.

The court must set aside any discomfort about judging a former colleague and revoke Gableman’s law license.

“Another lane will fix it” still reigns at WisDOT, but the public is pushing back.

Next time, pick a villain who is unlikeable.

One of the biggest political stories of 2025 has been the push for mid-decade gerrymandering of state’s congressional maps.

For us in the building trades, data centers aren’t some big, scary mystery. They’re high-skill, long-term work. The kind of work that feeds families, pays mortgages, and sends kids to college.

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“A bunch of old hippies.” That was the derisive term used by some to describe 2025’s massive protests of Trump administration policies.

In the fall of 2020, as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden were locked in a high-stakes competition for the presidency, Wisconsin ranked as the ultimate battleground state.

Our governor made sure it won’t be a possibility coming our way any time soon, vetoing a bill to exempt new cigar bars from the state’s public smoking ban.

That so many inexcusable things have happened since Trump was re-elected does not somehow make his heartlessness any less vomitous. Dancing on someone’s grave isn’t cute.

Consumers stand to benefit from Netflix’s acquisition of Warner.

The mass shooting at Brown University today is a barbaric and unacceptable tragedy that once again exposes the nation’s inability to confront its epidemic of gun violence.

I have a simple question: If you can board a tanker, why do you need to sink/AKA “blow up/AKA “kill everybody” on fishing boats?

My program could hire Tom Brokaw or Walter Cronkite (if he was still alive) to teach broadcast journalism, and they would have no vote on which broadcast news classes we offer because they aren’t PhDs with tenure. Make that make sense.

Hats off to state Rep. Lisa Subeck and state Sens. Kelda Roys and Chris Larson for pushing back against the insane campaign to get Americans to shun vaccines.

In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience.

With its recent decision in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, the US
Supreme Court has opened the door wide to partisan redistricting. What other
conclusion can be made?