Health officials and elected politicians have asked us all to hunker down in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
As much as the nation’s elected leaders from the White House to statehouses have found themselves at the vanguard of health care policy in rec…
It took U.S. marshals, often on horseback, about nine months to conduct the nation’s first census and that didn’t include the results from one…
About 317 miles.
It was 20 years ago that a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a couple of extra minutes likely were all that separated the UW-Eau Claire men’…
It’s not a revelatory observation that negativity abounds in today’s political climate.
“I am calling for bipartisan legislation that achieves the goal of dramatically lowering prescription drug prices. Get a bill to my desk, and …
Here’s an easy win for the Republican-run state Senate, if only its leaders would allow a vote before adjourning this spring.
Within just a few weeks of thousands of cases emerging halfway around the world, the threat of the dangerous coronavirus arrived on Pennsylvan…
A planned event center’s relationship with the city of Eau Claire cleared a significant, albeit early, hurdle this week.
Facebook is right to continue its policy of not moderating political advertising. It is wisely leaving the act of fact-checking such ads to it…
Rob Karwath specializes in civility. It’s unfortunately a term rarely applicable these days, particularly given the currently polarized politi…
To hear Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmakers tell it, a fair process for drawing voting districts following the 2020 census would be unconstit…
We’ve all seen cringe-worthy logos for businesses or organizations that make us scratch our heads instead of drawing us into a product or service.
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In this political environment, wouldn’t it make sense to find bipartisan co-sponsors for important proposed legislation prior to an announceme…
It’s a plight many of us can only imagine. For some it’s a dreadful reality.
We’ll agree that maintaining accurate voting records is important.
The decade that just ended delivered an underappreciated benefit to Americans that they’d surely notice if it were missing: extraordinary job growth.
When the long-stalled Equal Rights Amendment surged back to life in 2017, opponents argued that it just wasn’t needed anymore. Maybe back in t…
A National Public Radio show recently aired the fact that “UNO,” a popular game since even we were young, was going to remove its red and blue…
It has become obvious that Russia’s shameless leaders don’t care what the world thinks of their systematic cheating in sports. Just another an…
When President Donald Trump signed a new agreement to replace NAFTA, a lot of people who depend on borderless commerce — many of them Midwest …
On July 25, President Donald Trump picked up the phone in the White House residence and attempted to shake down a foreign leader.
“Leadership” and “ethics.”
The disorderly conduct case against a Janesville man claiming police violated his First Amendment rights shows the importance in making distin…
Even in an era of perpetual you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up “news” reports, a recent story out of the Badger State may have reset the bar.
Predicting how the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case based on the questions the justices raise during oral arguments is a fraught endeavor…
A proposed wind farm in southern Eau Claire County has understandably caused a stir for local residents.