Who’s hot, who’s not
With the end of the semester near, and in honor of a wildly fluctuating Dow Jones, let’s take a look at the varying fortunes of some prominent officials at the local and national levels: Stock up: University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly. The state of Wisconsin faces a $5.4 billion budget shortfall in the next two years. In response,… View story »
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Herald Editorials
December 11, 2008
Mann up
Amid all the speculation to find out who will replace Ald. Eli Judge, District 8, on the Madison City Council in the past week, there is another public office that has been sorely neglected: that of the Dane County supervisor. Since being elected in April, District 5 Supervisor Wyndham Manning has kept things under the radar. While we’re not yet… View story »
December 10, 2008
Release the tape
Records released by the Dane County Public Communications Center last week revealed a wealth of new information relating to the murder of University of Wisconsin junior Brittany Zimmermann last April. The documents show the 911 Center, in a 54-second phone call from the victim’s cell phone, was privy to an emergency situation that merited an immediate response. The documents revealed… View story »
December 5, 2008
A year saved, a year earned
In reaction to a $5.4 billion state budget shortfall and impending cuts to all state agencies, the University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has proposed the creation of a three-year degree program in UW System schools. The program, Reilly argued, would save students and the university money at a time when both are strapped for cash. We believe this… View story »
Editorial Cartoons
Sending out our loving to reader
The semester began with several revolutionary changes. First, we eliminated the use of courtesy titles in columns and editorials (Mr. and Ms.). Then we told the copy editors to allow writers to use italics for stylistic purposes. As for the writing itself — whatever. People are certainly more interested in how words look than what words say. And so ends… View story »
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Illinois not responsible for its scum
As FBI agent Robert Grant put ever so eloquently on Tuesday, “If Illinois isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, it’s sure one hell of a competitor.”It was announced Wednesday that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Deputy Governor Bob Greenlee resigned, perhaps a smart move on his part to avoid the storm brewing over. Blagojevich, on the other hand,… View story »
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Why Joey Labuz must read more
There are few things more nauseatingly transparent than some two-faced, posturing liberal who claims to sympathize with the oppressed, only to attack their means of resistance as irresponsible and misguided, doing the job of the bigoted right in the process. Such sentiment was poignantly expressed in Joey Labuz’s article in yesterday’s Herald (“Progressive Dane’s good intentions have poor execution”).Labuz begins… View story »
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Narcissism more dangerous than ice
I hate final exams. They devour my entire life. I don’t mind hard work or sleepless all-night studying, but I resent the fact that all my attention is devoted to these ultimately meaningless tests. Whatever I do, wherever I go, these damned finals preoccupy me to the point that I don’t care about anything else. It’s hard to pay much… View story »
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ASM truckin’
Although Tyler Junger’s opinion column from Dec. 5, 2008, provides some helpful critiques of both the Associated Students of Madison’s press office and the proposed constitution, his piece is misguided and calls for accountability from the wrong place. ASM needs to do a better job of communicating with the student body. However, that responsibility falls on its leadership and elected… View story »
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