Tag: The Capital Times

  • Teachers were respected before CRT

    Thanks for the reminder, Dave Zweifel! Awoke this beautiful Sunday morning in late February wondering what precious pearls the Head Groundskeeper of the Werkes would share with his panting public. He began the day with a stout cuppa joe and the contractually required chocolate biscotti as he took a deep dive into the day’s tranche…

  • An editor & publisher at age 7

    Start the presses! The most recent editor of the Wisconsin State Journal is moving upstairs to a job at corporate hdq. Jason Adrians, we hardly knew ye. Isn’t that the case with every newspaper editor and publisher these days? Who is today’s Colonel McCormick? Katherine Graham? Ben Bradlee? Who bosses the Washington Post since Marty…

  • Got crime? Who you gonna call?

    If not the police?  Now, The Capital Times wants more kids to be suspended from school? More troublemakers kicked out? NOW? In the wake of two student walk-outs, “East High students are absolutely right to pressure the Madison school district on sexual assaults,” Dane County’s progressive voice editorializes. Impose “sanctions for perpetrators of sexual assault…

  • A sick and twisted progressive hit job

    Politics of the personal Sometime soon, Dave Zweifel will write about the good old days when Democrats and Republicans could sit down and get blotto together at the old Congress Bar off Madison’s Capitol Square. If the editor emeritus asks what happened to those days, ask him to read his own newspaper. The Capital Times…

  • Thank you, all-powerful teachers union!

    Now get your shine box! My journalism alma mater, The Capital Times, flatters itself that it speaks truth to power, that hoary old cliché. We’ll believe it when they stop kowtowing (beautiful word) to  the all-powerful teachers union, Madison Teachers Inc. The Emerald City’s public schools remain shuttered for classroom learning late this February 2021…

  • Boot lickers of the world, unite!

    You have nothing to lose but your livelihoods To Paul Fanlund, editor and publisher The Capital Times “Dane County’s Progressive Voice” Regarding your latest editorial column: “Why many rich people keep a Faustian bargain with the GOP.”  You lost me when you labeled “conservative-leaning people among the educated professional class” as “boot-licking GOP toadies.” (Does…