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I’ve dreaded that the day would come when I’d have to write that this is our final issue. But that day is here.

Over the past nine years, little has given me as much joy as this beloved publication. I looked forward with delight to every other Thursday, when the paper came out. It was a biweekly treat.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower led a Republican Party in the 1950s that seems more like today’s Democratic Party than today’s GOP.

Progressive candidates for governor and other offices are off to a good start in the general election. About 100,000 more Wisconsin Democrats than Republicans voted Aug. 14 in the state primary, reflecting the advantage in enthusiasm that the Democratic Party enjoys nationwide.

In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of “conspiracy to commit espionage” and executed for sharing top-secret information about the U.S. nuclear program with the Soviet Union. 

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee who emerges from the Aug. 14 primary will have precious little time to campaign against Scott Walker. The candidates are not well-known by Wisconsin voters, and none of them will have resources approaching Walker’s to help get out their messages.

The Democratic candidates for governor say if nominated they plan to focus their campaigns on themselves — on what they will do for the state rather than on how Scott Walker has failed it.

After suffering through 15 years of former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s bizarre antics and deadly incompetence, residents have the opportunity to turn the department into one they can be proud of by electing Earnell Lucas.

It sometimes seems judges spend more time creating convoluted legal arguments to justify preconceived opinions than they do considering the facts of a case and the applicable law. We believe that’s how the Wisconsin Supreme Court reached its decision ordering Marquette University to reinstat…

Scott Walker owes much of his political success to his shameless exploitation of racism. Whenever he needs to solidify his base ahead of an election, he raises the specter of evil: "broken" Milwaukee, which is home to 65 percent of the state’s African Americans

Former state Rep. Mandela Barnes is stoked. He’s talking about plans to put Wisconsin on a fast track to the future by creating an infrastructure that supports homegrown business startups and making the state a more desirable place to live for young people. His enthusiasm is palpable as he d…

After the giddiness of the Obama years, the last 15 months have been a brutal reminder that the graph of social progress isn’t a straight, upward line. It’s a line as jagged as sharks’ teeth.

I’m no dancing queen.

My mom called a few weeks ago with news that the little blue bungalow next door to where I grew up was being sold.

These are sorry times when the guilty verdict in Bill Cosby’s recent sexual-assault trial is seen as “progress” for women. It’s taken half a century to bring justice to just one of Cosby’s 62 alleged victims. That fact, along with other social indicators, suggests the bar for women’s progres…

While the rate of U.S. mental-health spending is equivalent to other wealthy nations, we have a much higher rate of mass shootings. What’s the difference?

The term “wetlands” may seem esoteric, but these ecosystem building blocks are critical to our environment. So why would state Republicans have launched an all-out attack on them? As usual, follow the money.

Over the past few decades, our nation has come to resemble a plutocracy — that is, a government controlled by moneyed elites acting in their own interests. Wisconsin is both a prime example of and a prime player in the nation’s transformation.

In his bid for a third term as Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker is scrambling to create a positive narrative of his economic leadership. With worker shortages, fleeing millennials, a shrinking middle class, and a backward approach to almost everything, that’s a tall order.

The past year has given the nation one of its most profound cases of cultural whiplash in memory — and women are at its heart.

After you’ve bought a house, you can refinance your mortgage when a lower interest rate is made available. Millions of Americans have taken advantage of this opportunity, using the extra money they save from lower interest payments to improve their homes, pay for healthcare or put their chil…