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Dave Zweifel
Plain Talk: Scam artists steal millions from Medicare
This month’s AARP Bulletin includes a very disturbing piece about how scam artists have made the nation’s Medicare system a primary target.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:45 am
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John Nichols
Falk won’t run for lieutenant gov, but she still has statewide potential
When it became clear Tom Barrett was running for governor, Democrats started buzzing about Kathleen Falk as a possible bidder for the state’s No. 2 job
Nov 19, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Cap Times Columnists

Phil Haslanger
Listening to the voices of Israel and Palestine
We shared lunch with Gosayna Karam in Nazareth, remembered as the town where Jesus grew up, and heard her talk about her worries for her children’s education in a country where there is a huge disparity in funding between Jewish and Arab students.
Nov 19, 2009 | 4:45 am
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Barbara Quirk
A sense of hope on health care
James Firman, president and CEO of the National Council on Aging, gave an absolutely inspiring speech on health care
Nov 17, 2009 | 4:45 am
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Commentary

Otis W. Brawley: Let's stick with mammograms

On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a step backward in the fight against breast cancer.

Nov 20, 2009 | 4:30 am | Loading…

Amanda Rudie: Dreaming of deer hunt and venison steak

My body is sitting in an environmental health lecture in Bascom Hall with 250 students, but my mind is deep in the woods of northern Wisconsin

Nov 20, 2009 | 4:30 am | Loading…

E.J. Dionne: Senate Republicans take stalling to new heights

It’s time to start paying attention to how Republicans, with Machiavellian brilliance, have hit upon what might be called the Beltway-at-Rush-Hour Strategy.

Nov 20, 2009 | 4:15 am | Loading…

W. Lee Hansen: Does UW really suffer from a dearth of diversity?

UW-Madison’s long-standing focus on “targeted minorities” is a much-too-provincial view of “diversity” in the global world of the 21st century.

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Salih Erschen: Fort Hood reflections from a Madison Muslim

Thursday, Nov. 5, was a tragic day, but the actions by this lone gunman in killing 13 people at Fort Hood should in no way be remembered as an action befitting a Muslim.

Nov 19, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Amy Goodman: Hunger stats bring home reality of guns versus butter

“In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme online video.

Nov 19, 2009 | 4:30 am | Loading…

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