Bill Wineke

I don't know if we will ever get to the point with President Donald Trump when people rise up and say “Enough is enough!”

The University of Wisconsin System says it is hiring former Gov. Tommy Thompson as its interim system president.

Sometimes I don't think we properly appreciate the ability President Trump has to lift our spirits.

President Trump, seemingly cowering in the White House basement, sent out a bluster-filled “tweet” to demonstrators surrounding the White House.

I guess you have to give President Donald Trump credit for consistency.

President Trump is becoming a self-contradiction: He both dominates national life and is, increasingly, becoming irrelevant to it.

Governor Evers and his staff had created a seven-item criteria for what the state needed to do before beginning a phased opening of business and social institutions; six of those seven had been met.

President Trump started his day Tuesday by tweeting that he thinks television personality and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough is a murderer.

The great American populace – or, at least, that portion of it that likes to make noise and threaten people – has spoken about the use of masks, saying, in effect, “Hell no!”

A couple of weeks ago Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue stood beside President Trump to assure us that the nation's food supply is “strong, resilient and safe.”

Time during the Covid-19 pandemic moves so quickly that an evening gone can seem like a thousand ages.

A couple of headlines in the morning paper illustrate the dilemma posed by demonstrations around the country demanding that states reopen their economies and end shelter-in-place regulations.

So, I guess this is the new definition of conservative philosophy: “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total and that's the way it is going to be.”

There was one iconic image of this week's election in Wisconsin.

Ten years ago the voters of Wisconsin in their infinite wisdom decided to elect Scott Walker as governor and to put in power a Republican assembly and senate.

The Navy has relieved (read fired) the captain of the aircraft carrier housing dozens of sailors with coronaryvirus infections.

Stephen Colbert is usually one of the funniest men on television but, this week, he is delivering his monologue from his New Jersey home and it pretty much falls flat.

It takes a certain amount of artistic courage to be the Madison Symphony Orchestra's featured violin soloist three weeks after the legendary Pinchas Zukerman took the stage.

I’m afraid the Republican Party is losing all patience with me.

MADISON, Wis. -- Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth first thrilled Madison Symphony Orchestra audiences with a performance of Brahm's “Double Concerto” in 2001. Zukerman, 71, and Forsyth, 53, have since married. They returned to the Madison stage over…

President Trump is happily waging his reign of terror on those who oppose him and the Republican Party is happy to go along.

The most important thing about Madison Opera’s weekend performances of “Fellow Travelers” is that artistic director John DeMain conducted the orchestra a day after his wife, Barbara, died unexpectedly.

There was just one serious question posed for Wednesday's impeachment vote and that was how former Republican presidential candidate would come down.