Protesters were in Downtown Madison Friday afternoon to demonstrate against trains in Madison. But it wasn't clear that many people noticed them.

I'm left to deduce there is no mass tipping point in favor of mass train transportation, and, for now at least, the train argument seems confined to the politicos — and their competing versions of freedom.

Smokers — already pariahs by virtue of an odor no longer considered socially acceptable — are now expected to smell even worse by carrying around cigarette detritus in their pockets.

The just-released documentary DVD “Touched by an Angell” provides an in-depth look at the rousing world of midget racing at Angell Park Speedway, one of the sport’s best known tracks.

This is a story of a writer, an agent, a mysterious package and an idiot. Actually, that’s wrong. In this story, the writer and the idiot are the same guy.

They were just four guys sitting around a table talking smart through a cloud of cigar smoke. Pretty they were not.

Neither of them wants to admit it. And their staunch supporters will cringe at the suggestion. But here goes: Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and Republican candidate for governor Mark Neumann have a lot in common. Feingold is a Madison-area liberal. Neumann is a conservative from the GOP…

I was pleasantly surprised. Then impressed. Then shake-my-head disappointed. Two out of three ain't bad, I guess, at the DMV. I made my first visit in years to the Division of Motor Vehicles last week on Madison's West Side. This much-maligned bastion of bureaucracy wouldn't matter much in t…

Our movie-loving lieutenant governor was quoted in Wednesday's State Journal once again lamenting an end to fat state subsidies for Hollywood films. "We are really not in this game anymore," Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said. "The (film) industry waits and hopes that Wisconsin will again be open…