Editor’s Note
In a truly horrible year, perhaps there have been planted the seeds of miracles
By Mike Nichols
Police use of force rare here
What happened in Kenosha is an anomaly, defying the critics’ charge that police violence is systemic
By Patrick Hughes and Mike Nichols
Badger Briefing: Here’s what we’re hearing
Numbers and nuggets from trends we’ve observed on topics from telehealth to unemployment to small businesses
Q&A with Kevin McMahill
A cop’s toughest call: if and when to use force to apprehend a suspect
By Mike Nichols
Civil War hero canceled
Madison protesters sacrifice symbol of abolition, equality and freedom for Black Lives Matter dogma
By Julie Grace
Violent: a matter of definition
The state labels thousands of offenders violent when they’ve never committed an act of violence
By Julie Grace
MPS not done with BLM at school
The district failed to fund the curriculum and the teachers, but some MPS believers are pressing on
By Donovan Newkirk
With police in retreat, view from Fond du Lac Ave. is bleak
Cutting cops unnecessarily to placate protesters will do nothing to help George Floyd or Jacob Blake
By Mike Nichols
The wrong prescription
Raising the minimum wage is an overly simplistic way to make housing more affordable for low-income people
By Ken Wysocky
Stealing from our children
Sen. Ron Johnson’s wake up call for a new era of federal spending insanity and its consequences
By Michael Jahr
State readies for absentee ballot crush
Elections commission is confident that ballot tracking and barcoding will mean smooth and secure voting
By Mark Lisheron
Pandemic population push?
Wisconsin’s small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown
By Ike Brannon
