It is frustrating that many of the obstacles faced by people trying to recover from substance use disorders are legal or bureaucratic.

The Madison Community Foundation is about legacy and community impact.

The proposed demolition of Westgate Mall and the $100 Million housing and retail project that would replace it is wonderful addition to the neighborhood at the intersection of Madison’s West and Southwest sides.

MADISON, Wis. -- Our State Legislature once again has the opportunity to prove itself capable of putting partisanship aside in the interest of justice and public health. We sure hope it’s up to the challenge.

MADISON, Wis. -- Tuesday’s vote by the Madison City Council repealing the master plan for the Edgewood Campus on Monroe Street among other things allows Edgewood High School to host games on its athletic field.

MADISON, Wis. -- We’ve been strong supporters of community schools long before they were first proposed by the Madison Metropolitan School District. Called “lighted schoolhouses” in one national iteration the idea is using a school as a place for resources, family support and services beyond classroom instruction.

MADISON, Wis. -- We might as well admit up front this is one of those editorials that are more hopeful than realistic.

This Tuesday is the deadline for filing the paperwork necessary to run for office in the Spring election and we’re hoping a few more folks decide to throw their hats in the ring.

We’re hoping the Madison City Council will scrap the master plan for the three Edgewood schools on the Monroe Street campus, and we’re hoping Edgewood High School will continue to work with the neighborhood on holding sports events on its field.

We enter the New Year with a long list of issues needing attention, and some of them are important issues that need to be resolved expeditiously. One of those is a contract extension for Badger Rock Middle School.

For our last editorial of the year we take one last review of our 2019 agenda, an agenda that combined some issues we’ve put on pervious agendas in the hope that a new political of civic environment might lend itself to action, as well as issues newly relevant to these times. Results were mixed.

MADISON, Wis. - There was an old saying, first in sincerity and later in jest, that went something like better living through modern chemistry.