What Message Are We Sending Our Kids?
If you have a child in school and that child is exposed to someone who has the Covid-19 virus, here's what will happen: Your kid will be sent home and told to quarantine for 14 days.
Wineke: Barrett's faith should be emulated, not condemned
There are a lot of reasons why I think Amy Coney Barrett should not be a Supreme Court justice, but her religious faith and practice is not one of them.
Wineke: Well, of course we need a mask mandate
Gov. Tony Evers has extended the statewide mask mandate through late November.
For the Record: How the pandemic will impact this year’s election
Though Election Day is scheduled for Nov. 3, the timeline this year is different. According to Madison’s city clerk, just about everything this year is different.
Wineke: What kind of man is this?
It's kind of hard to be truly shocked by anything the president does these days, but what happened last week comes close.
Editorial: Farewell from a friend
It feels especially fitting that the last editorial agenda of my career as Editorial Director for WISC is Shared Concerns.
Editorial: Unfinished business leaves room for big ideas
One of the tools we’ve used to help us focus our editorials over the last 28 years is an annual editorial agenda. It was a handful of issues we felt deserved added attention, an effort to reflect the issues important at the time. And it was frequently a reminder of what we had yet to accomplish.
Editorial: Wrapping up 28 years of editorials
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.
Editorial: We’re all in this together, remember?
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.
Editorial: A lot of people doing a lot of good work
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.
Wineke: We're already living in an authoritarian regime
The nation's political pundits keep warning us that, if President Trump is reelected, we are in danger of becoming an authoritarian society.
Editorial: Modifying student behavior
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?
Editorial: Appreciating Dane County parks
It was anything but a traditional Labor Day holiday in terms of parades, bean feeds, picnics and gatherings.
Editorial: Creating the policing of the future
There is not a police department in America better positioned to create the policing of the future as the Madison Police Department.
Editorial: Standing with Kenosha
As we have experienced here in Madison, it is frightening and terribly sad to see the destruction in the city of Kenosha.
