It’s been a bleak summer without festivals, fairs or concerts in the park. Fall events are mostly canceled, too.
It’s not news that our rural area, a patchwork of tiny villages and unincorporated towns 20 miles from Madison, could use more affordable housing.
The exhausting local debate that dominated July and August, over how to begin the school year, is done.
It’s not news to those who live and work in our rural area, that Wisconsin’s small towns and rural economies operate differently from that of …
The freedom to speak your mind is a bedrock of American democracy. And newspapers have a constitutionally guaranteed freedom to disseminate vi…
Crunch time is nearing for a proposed $6.5 million expansion of the fire and EMS station in Cambridge that serves five area municipalities.
Suddenly the calendar turned to September and I asked myself, “Where did the summer go?”
I have a great idea for Joe Biden's campaign slogan! I'm surprised no one has thought of it before. Are you ready? How about "Make America Gre…
There's a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November -- it's called mail-in balloting.
The year 2020 started out precariously for Waterloo-based Trek Bicycle Co. But things turned prosperous for the company in early summer, as ma…
Wisconsin’s gross property tax levies saw their largest percentage increase in more than a decade on last December’s bills, but robust growth …
I spend hours every day thinking about food. I'm the director of a non-profit health outreach organization and a certified health worker taske…
I’m a natural procrastinator, subscribing to the belief that if you start something today that could have waited until tomorrow you’ll be too …
I have been trying to follow the articles that the News has published regarding the referendums in April for the Fire and EMS station expansio…
For the first time in it’s history, the South Central Federation of Labor canceled Labor-Fest. The Solidarity through camaraderie cannot be re…
An ability to commit to action and keep promises is generally regarded as attractive and admirable in our leaders. Tactics such as cheating to…
I was saddened to see in last week’s paper that the Cambridge area business community is struggling to maintain the Chamber of Commerce. There…
In a time of global COVID-19 pandemic, and when – two decades into the 21st century – structural and institutional racism is very much a part …
For many years, both Wisconsin and Iowa have enjoyed “trifectas” where the Republican Party held majorities in the executive branch and both h…
