Opinion

I need to wrap up 28 years of editorials here in the three I have remaining, and I want to start by thanking my editorial board for allowing me some personal thoughts in these last few.

This darned virus is sure making it hard to get to the retirement editorials. But this is so much more important. This is why we do editorials.

It feels like there’s a lot of ground to cover in these last five editorials I’ll be doing as Editorial Director for WISC. As always there are a lot of people doing a lot of good work.

In her letter to the UW-Madison community Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote “This virus cannot be controlled without each of us modifying our normal behavior.” The question is can UW students modify their normal behavior?

It was anything but a traditional Labor Day holiday in terms of parades, bean feeds, picnics and gatherings.

How about a little positive news? We thought so.

There is not a police department in America better positioned to create the policing of the future as the Madison Police Department.

As we have experienced here in Madison, it is frightening and terribly sad to see the destruction in the city of Kenosha.

We have to keep celebrating the good work being done every day in our community, and this month we are recognizing Operation Fresh Start’s 50 years of helping disconnected young people find and stay on their path to self-sufficiency.

Sometimes it feels like we can't even catch our breaths, like events are coming at us from every direction. The world can feel untethered. 

A few years ago the WISC Editorial Board put on one of our agendas for the year an item questioning the role sports play in our society.

The escalation of violence in Kenosha is terrifying, all the more so for the equally horrible sense of its inevitability.

We’ve acknowledged before, to be silent is to be complicit.