The tab for private attorneys hired by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin has now hit nearly $4.8 million for this legislative session, fueled …
Amid all the troubles occupying our attention, one of the more worrisome is also one of the least visible. It is the loss of public faith in t…
UW System President Tommy Thompson and a coalition of shared governance groups are seeking to limit cuts to the state’s university system foll…
The Biden campaign has been lucky most of all, but it’s also been smart, at least smart enough.
Let’s suppose Donald Trump and his family, the Trumpettes, really go down in flames on Election Day, and let’s suppose their last-minute despe…
For the past 40 years, I’ve made my living traveling Wisconsin as a singer-songwriter. During that time, I was never “unemployed” — until Marc…
Days before starting first grade, my family moved to Wisconsin and purchased a small farm in Chippewa Falls. Like 95% of farms in Wisconsin, o…
If only the rest of the country could handle COVID-19 as well as New York.
The problem is that young people are love-starved, or whatever term you would like to substitute. As soon as the bars, beaches and swimming po…
The EPA Small Refinery Exemptions update in mid-June shows the agency was considering 52 exemption petitions for Renewable Fuel Standard compl…
I’ve spent a long time in politics, and over those years one thing has remained constant: a lot more Americans criticize government than serve…
There are many aspects to the value of a community having a local newspaper serving its community.
If nothing else, President Donald Trump’s July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore clarified the battle lines of our culture war.
We did not hold our April 14 Blood Drive because of the uncertainties of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Because the Red Cross instituted numerous s…
With coronavirus cases rising again across America, we’re seeing a new wave of uncertainty from consumers and varying degrees of shutdown in p…
Former Republican Governor and Minority Leader Tommy Thompson, and former Democratic Speaker of the Assembly Tom Loftus, are working together …
Every year, Rotary Sun Prairie presents the Service Above Self Award to an individual who has made our community stronger and a better place t…
As the owner of that “home to the west of those buildings” that was also destroyed (see "Two years later, Sun Prairie Stronger as a community,…
Like many other Sunshine Place programs, Stuff the Bus will be making some changes to keep our patrons and community as safe as possible durin…
The toll of COVID-19 on our nursing homes and long-term care facilities is nothing short of a tragedy. Here in Wisconsin, 16.6 percent of COVI…
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As America continues to reel from the economic and very personal pain inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Associated Builders and Contractors …
With an array of candy like tobacco products used by kids, more than ever is the importance of keeping tobacco out of the hands of minors.
To the person or persons who thought he was honoring veterans by going into the cemetery and putting flags on graves: All you did was have fam…
Putting sidewalks on Grandview Drive and Crossing Ridge Trail makes no sense at all.
As President of the Auxiliary of Klubertanz-Trapp VFW Post 9362 in Sun Prairie, I would like to reflect on the history of the upcoming Memoria…
On page A6 of the Tuesday, April 28 issue of the Sun Prairie Star was an extremely inappropriate picture. Of all the pictures available regard…
