Here’s a depressing factoid I learned recently:
This past spring, our lives changed dramatically as we began to quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of social distancing, …
Winter is a season of magic. Hidden beauty becomes visible. Much remains a mystery.
I am honored to write to you all today as your newly inaugurated State Senator. As a Madison native, it is a privilege to serve the community …
Outside my window, the snow is coming down. The garden sits empty and bare in my backyard. While working from home since March, I have watched…
One year ago, I had never used the word pandemic to talk about anything other than the cooperative board game or historic events. I hadn’t spo…
I might as well turn myself in right now.
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Every year at Christmas, I turn this column over to my husband, Chuck Martin:
I first started thinking about prisons during my early years in the Assembly, more than 50 years ago. I believed then, and I believe now, that…
When it comes to Christmas and newspapers, nobody did it better than the classic response to a letter that appeared in The New York Sun.
Just when it seemed some of the most disheartening trends in the U.S. economy were finally beginning to reverse, COVID-19 arrived to entrench them.
A couple of days ago, I got up, made coffee, and sat down at the table with a big cup of – hot water.
While consumers may be binge-watching video more than ever in a time of social distancing, new data shows cable television revenues falling in…
I remember when my co-worker told me he had to find a way to make a sweater outlandish and tacky in hopes of winning the ugly sweater grand pr…
Editor's note: the McFarland Angelo's will remain open and is in the process of adding a 1,100-square-foot dining room addition, new outdoor p…
Ordinarily, it’s not possible for a party to win the presidency and have a bad election night, but the Democrats managed it.
It was 1973 when the hit movie “The Way We Were” was released, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as an unlikely couple with diverge…
On a November 11 more than a century ago, the guns of the “Great War” fell silent and World War I finally ended. The following year – and ever…
Let's make some wobbly assumptions and look to the future. Suppose the country survives the onslaught of lies -- or "alternative facts," as Ke…
The October surprise happened in September, but it was certainly a jarring surprise. Normally in a presidential race, it will be engineered by…
State agencies want to update the unemployment insurance computer system, create a new position to train law enforcement on the use of force, …
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…
Here is why I believe the gist of the Atlantic magazine article that President Donald Trump called American troops "losers," "suckers" and muc…
Hollywood is accommodating a new era of McCarthyism, imposed this time by Red China.
Our community and nation have been through much, so much it can often feel like things are coming apart at the seams – a global pandemic, econ…
Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that many of our jobs can be done digitally and remotely.
The 2020-21 school year will have a different look and feel because of the current reality of living and operating in a COVID-19 environment. …
