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Deb Price: Census Bureau an ally in the gay movement

The 2010 Census will have a new message for same-sex married couples like Joyce and me: “You count.” Reflecting a refreshingly new era at the Census Bureau, the nation’s pre-eminent collector of data is upgrading how it deals with those of us who are gay.

Nov 21, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Sanford D. Horwitt: Plouffe’s Obama book engaging, illuminating

In late 2002, an obscure Illinois state senator, Barack Obama, was eyeing a run in the 2004 Democratic Party primary for a U.S. Senate seat. He would be up against seemingly prohibitive favorites, one who would have the backing of the party’s establishment, the other with a personal fortun…

Nov 21, 2009 | 4:00 am | Loading…

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.

Nov 20, 2009 | 4:15 am | Loading…

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