For the first time in ten weeks, I sang this week with live musicians.

As COVID Spring gives way to COVID Summer, communities around Wisconsin are latching onto a great idea to help struggling restaurants.

If April showers bring May flowers, a May polar vortex messes with my cortex.

It is a tradition for Chinese families that during Chinese New Year the family would get together and feast. Almost like Thanksgiving here in the States, but the feast would last for days.

Despite a record-setting year for Wisconsin tourism in 2019, the industry is now scrambling to adjust to the shock of coronavirus while hoping the Memorial Day weekend can start a comeback to mitigate millions of dollars in losses.

A country learns about itself in a crisis, and one revelation in the coronavirus emergency is that we can't make our own penicillin.

A month from now, it will be interesting to see how many of the customers who crowded into Wisconsin bars without masks the moment their local government leaders lifted the taverns' restrictions have caught the coronavirus ... and how many have died. It's morbid, but so is the trade-off that…

Wisconsin school districts face extraordinary uncertainty in drafting next year’s budgets amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Key questions include whether and how schools will open this fall and whether the drop in state tax collections will mean a cut in state school aids.

For local youth whose summers revolve around raising small meat animals, dairy and livestock, there’s far more at stake at the fair than showmanship.

When I was attending college, I was just amazed how many holidays there were. In a sense, it was great, as we didn’t have any classes; a day to loaf around not doing anything. Then the world turned when I started working in a restaurant.

New York is the greatest city in the world. It also is uniquely suited to the spread of the coronavirus.

Let's take one of those magical trips down memory lane, way back to 1939. One of the popular tunes back then was "Wishing (Will Make It So)."

The unincorporated town of Northfield is located in the northwest corner of Jackson County where Interstate 94 exits at Wisconsin Highway 121 between Osseo and Hixton, 34 miles southeast of Eau Claire.

Democratic candidates are alleging nomination papers being distributed by a Bernie Sanders-aligned group contain errors that would lead to rejection by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

The sum of a bunch of random pieces is a whole.

Every year during national EMS Week, we take time to recognize the efforts of our local emergency responders.

Candidates seeking to get their name on the fall ballot have gotten creative as they try to collect signatures on nomination papers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The highlight of my week, every week, is Game Night.

As COVID-19 rages on, a local ad-hoc group is quietly pushing ahead with its vision for connecting Cambridge to the Glacial Drumlin State Trail.

My knuckles are raw from sanitizer. No amount of good lotion seems to fix that.

One lesson that has been driven home during the current global pandemic is how interdependent and global our economy is. That’s clearly evident with agriculture; the glut of dairy products caused by a steep decline in demand from the restaurant and food-industry sector has sent prices plumme…

Donald Trump says it’s just not fair.

The COVID-19 pandemic began causing traffic on Wisconsin’s roads to plummet even before the governor’s Safer at Home order was issued on March 24. Traffic counts were dropping in all parts of the state, not just hard-hit areas. The decline has potential implications for public health, the ec…

If you thought the coronavirus presented difficult policy questions, don't worry -- we have science.

"My liberty ends where yours begins." There's some dispute over who first said a variation of this, but do you really care? The point should be as obvious as, say, "Don't ingest household disinfectants."

Our communities are facing the greatest crisis of our lifetimes. Everyone is impacted by the situation: cancelled classes, lost wages, shuttered businesses, and reduced services, not to mention the thousands who have fallen ill or lost their lives to COVID-19.

Among all Wisconsin local governments, its counties are likely to face the greatest fiscal challenges during this unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. They are the only ones that receive significant sales tax revenues and, due to the health programs they provide, are the most likely to see increas…

Medical systems around the state have been cutting workers’ hours while at the same time ramping up to handle the coronavirus pandemic.

It was a mixture of relief and regret as I watched the cattle trailer pull out of our driveway — relief that I was able to find a good buyer for some of our last Scottish Highland cows but regret that we were essentially exiting the cow business.

There is Twitter and there is Nitwitter. You decide which this is as the president of the United States was tweeting why he didn't hold his daily coronavirus briefing:

Forgive Jacksonville, Florida, for it has sinned.

Rummage sales are a staple of summer. Early Saturday mornings spent traversing local neighborhoods, coffee in hand, looking for treasure.

If fewer people go hungry from job loss and other pandemic-related causes, and if we continue to have local access to a variety of safe and healthy food choices, we will have succeeded on at least one point in 2020.

While revenues for Wisconsin municipalities will likely be hit hard by the COVID-19 economic shutdown, compared to other states local governments here may see at least some benefits from their heavy reliance on property taxes and state aids to fund public services.

Amid all of the chaos and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, I’m hearing more and more stories of people turning to art for comfort and meaning.

At a coronavirus task force briefing at the beginning of April, White House adviser Jared Kushner explained the approach that would -- as events proved -- get the country through its ventilator crisis.

The idea of a hotel room tax comes up periodically in Cambridge.

And in the end, in 2020, we were left with this: solemn local cemetery observances on Memorial Day and a wreath on a downtown Cambridge monument.

National Volunteer Appreciation Week is April 19-25. One week is not long enough to show our volunteers how much we truly appreciate and thank them for their countless and unwavering dedication to the mission we serve here for all the animals that come into our care.

Stay-at-home guidelines because of the COVID-19 virus pandemic find us living in strange times indeed.

With the COVID crisis, the worst-case scenario has often proven too optimistic. But here it is, for what it's worth: The loosening up of restrictions that President Donald Trump is now advocating, along with his GOP politician bootlickers and his jackboot demonstrators, would slightly dampen…