Capital Times Features

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…

In a “grand bargain,” millionaires would pay more taxes and there would be cuts in Social Security and Medicare. That doesn’t sound like a bargain. It sounds more like working people getting r…

A fast-tracked state Assembly bill up for debate Tuesday would wipe out at least 17 provisions of city tenant-landlord law, alders say.

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

Barnard is the force behind Food Enterprise & Economic Development Kitchens, a north-side business incubator that broke ground last month.

Wisconsin should have a statewide referendum to let voters support the belief that money is not speech, and corporations are not entitled to the same rights as natural persons.

For the 46 senators who voted against expanded background checks, getting in the way of mothers trying to protect their children should cost them their political lives.

At the free Outdoor Education Expo on May 16-17 in Dodge County, children on school field trips will be indoctrinated to the NRA's way of thinking.

Dear Editor: I am not sure what Peter Erk’s background is or what his true understanding of the practice of medicine in Madison’s three medical centers and their affiliated hospitals is really…

Dear Editor: Our nation needs economic growth. Here are the reasons why. The labor force participation rate is the percentage of working-age persons in an economy who are employed, or are unem…

Dear Editor: Just a few days ago, consumers in southwest Wisconsin gained access to E15 fuel. While the fuel blend has been available for drivers of flex fuel vehicles for some time, it’s now …