Capital Times Features

Silver's ties to Wisconsin include the fact that his parents met on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.

Well-known for over-the-top videos skewering Republicans, Vince Megna responds to a new effort to hit him where it hurts.

A daily roundup of interesting newspaper editorials and blog posts from around Madison and Wisconsin.

Stories that are making the news today in Madison and around the state and country. 

Discussion about our racial achievement gap is everywhere; now it’s up to new Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham to sort it all out.

Cities should be able to determine whether those who collect paychecks from them should remain a part of the community they serve.

Republicans in the Capitol are dictating to Milwaukee how to run local government — showing they're first-class hypocrites.

Since Newtown, the U.S. has seen almost 4,000 gun deaths — what Milwaukee's police chief calls "slow-motion mass murders." Will Congress notice the political heat is now coming from those who …

Tammy Baldwin showed that Republicans can't gerrymander a statewide race. But if Democrats have any hope of beating Scott Walker, they'd better get to work.

The Legislature has a moral obligation to ensure that scarce resources for job creation are used to actually create jobs. The venture capital bill falls short of this mark.

Here’s how five citizens answered this week’s question posed by Capital Times freelancer Kevin Murphy. What do you think? Please join the discussion.

Dear Editor: Our neighborhood has dealt with two new housing projects that will forever alter life in our part of Madison. The Ideal and Lane's Bakery projects were approved before the new zon…

Dear Editor: “In Flanders Field the poppies blow.” Yes, it is that time of year when members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars distribute poppies. You usually see them around grocery stores, gas…

Dear Editor: The Republican Party recently held a convention at Rothschild’s Patriot Center, near Wausau.

The supervisor is Sophia Tareen.

The week's highlights also included a duckling rescue, a hacked road sign and this message from a 911 dispatcher: "Please tell cellphone users that people lying in the grass are not necessaril…