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Dave Zweifel
Plain Talk: 44 years later, a teacher and skater reunion
Back when Jeanette Bossingham was teaching fifth-graders at Madison's Glendale Elementary School, she had a student named Pete Mueller.
Nov 09, 2009 | 6:45 am
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John Nichols
Baldwin rejects know-nothing approach to Mideast
The United States Congress embarrassed itself last week. To her credit, however, Madison Democrat Tammy Baldwin did not participate in the charade.
Nov 08, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Cap Times Columnists

Bill Berry
Tax must go up to curb American thirst for gas
The Federal Highway Administration's latest numbers show that miles driven on American roads are up again after a trend that saw driving miles decline for about 18 months.
Nov 09, 2009 | 6:00 am
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Joel Mcnally
Joel McNally: Democrats vs. Democrats
Humorist Will Rogers summed it up a long time ago when he said: "I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
Nov 07, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Commentary

Clay Risen: In Germany, east and west still divided

It's been two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet the split between east and west is stronger than ever.

Nov 09, 2009 | 6:00 am | Loading…

E.J. Dionne: When voters disrupt the tea party

Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.

Nov 09, 2009 | 6:00 am | Loading…

Andrea Kaminski: Preserving confidence in our courts

Any citizen who has to appear in court should have absolute confidence that the judge will be fair and impartial.

Nov 08, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…

Buzz Davis: Department of Peace is what nation needs

Veterans Day is coming Nov. 11. But for most vets, it never gets here.

Nov 08, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Michael Meyer: Fall of Berlin Wall a lesson in 'what if?'

For weeks, the scene has been replayed on TV screens around the world, as if the events were breaking news: joyous Berliners dancing atop the infamous wall, toppled 20 years ago on Nov. 9, 1989.

Nov 08, 2009 | 4:30 am | Loading…

Susan Campbell: It's not cheap to kill inmates

In the long, heated debate about capital punishment, we go round and round about justice or revenge, as if the two ideas operate independently of one another.

Nov 08, 2009 | 4:00 am | Loading…

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