1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1014+ words) Emily Cai and Dane Lottridge hold signs and listen as activist Amira Pierotti speaks in support of transgender rights. Brad Schlaikowski has spent the last week angry. He knows the power a safe, affirming home can have on the LGBTQ…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (192+ words) Dear Editor: I live in Chicago. I have no connection to the … Dear Editor: In 1976, the TV cop series "Barney Miller" feat… Dear Editor: Kenosha County should be honest about what happened when its Human Services Committee took up a…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (269+ words) Caffeinated Politics blogger Gregory Humphrey says that transgender youth in Wisconsin deserve better. Amid all the pushback against them, he quotes a mother with a transgender child who tells him there is a moment every parent recognizes that you are…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (942+ words) U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin co-led the 2022 bill in the U.S. Senate that created the 988 crisis line. She says it's time to bring back the "Press 3" option for LGBTQ+ callers. By dialing or texting 988, or opening a chat at 988lifeline.org, Wisconsin…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (818+ words) Governor Tony Evers hands off the pen he used to veto a bill that would have prohibited gender transition medical intervention for minors at the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Dec. 6, 2023. Madison Ald. Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford didn’t go through…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (803+ words) UW Health has an ethical and moral obligation to resume taking care of its pediatric transgender patients. The health system unnecessarily paused care less than a month after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a series of…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1538+ words) Two months into his first teaching job, Logan Bitz sat down and drew a T-chart. On one side, he wrote the goals he had for his life: going to college and becoming a teacher. He’d just graduated from the University…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (560+ words) John Kavanaugh, owner of Kavanaugh's Esquire Club, died on Jan. 13. His son, "Little John" Kavanaugh, said 1,200 people attended his funeral. Kavanaugh's Esquire Club on the north side of Madison has closed after 80 years in business. “Little John” Kavanaugh had 350 people…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (698+ words) American Family Children's Hospital is next to UW Hospital on the far west side of the UW-Madison campus. Imagine, for a moment, that your child requires specialized medical treatment. Imagine researching everything available on the topic, networking with other parents…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (265+ words) The Cap Times Letters to the Editor - Morning Update: what's happening in Madison from audience director Chris Murphy, delivered weekdays - Opinion Roundup: op-eds, columns + updates from opinion editor Steve Elbow, delivered every Friday - Madison Life: updates on Madison's arts, eats…...