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Dane County Executive Melissa Agard does have an opponent
Incumbent County Executive Melissa Agard and two-time Assembly candidate Stephen Ratzlaff face off April 1 to be Dane County’s next executive.
Liam Beran
Madison postal workers protest push to privatize
Privatization of the USPS could hurt rural Wisconsin communities, who benefit from the agency’s requirement to deliver to every address in the nation.
Mar 20, 2025
School board chair Nichelle Nichols runs unopposed for reelection
Nichelle Nichols is running in an uncontested race to retain her school board seat.
Mar 20, 2025
Ali Muldrow runs for Madison school board reelection unopposed
Ali Muldrow is running in an uncontested race to retain her school board seat.
Mar 19, 2025
Meet the candidates running for Madison’s contested school board seat
Bret Wagner and Martha Siravo are facing off for the seat previously held by Laura Simkin.
Mar 18, 2025
Schimel: Coburn Dukehart / Crawford: Joe Timmerman
Supreme Court race repeats party labels, cash
The April 1 election for 10-year term on the state Supreme Court between Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford has a Groundhog Day quality.
Mar 17, 2025
Liam Beran
Trump administration cuts threaten UW-Madison ag studies, state farmers
At the center of UW-Madison’s agricultural research is the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences or CALS. The college employs nearly 250 faculty and has about 4,000 students.
Mar 14, 2025
Liam Beran
Congress considers axing tax-exempt municipal bonds
A congressional proposal would remove the exemption, in place since 1913, to fund Trump’s $4.5 proposed trillion tax cut.
Mar 13, 2025
2:15 PM
Liam Beran
Witzel-Behl placed on leave three weeks before spring election
The City Clerk’s Office left 193 ballots uncounted in November, an error Maribeth Witzel-Behl did not communicate to the city until mid-December.
Mar 12, 2025
10:35 AM
Join the Isthmus staff in our first ever Community Newsroom
We’d love to hear what’s on your mind and answer any questions you might have about our coverage.
Mar 11, 2025
3:00 PM
Matthew Norman
Evers proposes to hike funding for municipal services payments
Lawmakers have steadily cut funding for the municipal services payments program over the past two decades.
Mar 11, 2025
6:00 AM
Spring 2025 Isthmus voter guide
Isthmus breaks down the candidates and races in our Spring 2025 voter guide.
Mar 10, 2025
1:00 PM
Guía Isthmus para el votante de las elecciones de la primavera de 2025
Isthmus desglosa los candidatos y las contiendas en nuestra guía del votante de la primavera de 2025.
Mar 10, 2025
1:00 PM
In the March issue
Supreme Clash
Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford has labeled rival Brad Schimel a 'right-wing extremist.” Schimel, in turn, has pegged Crawford as “a radical in a robe with an extreme and dangerous agenda.'
The Wisconsin Film Fest settles into Flix Brewhouse and other venues
Flix Brewhouse, UW Music Hall, the Bartell Theatre and the Barrymore stay on the roster of Wisconsin Film Fest venues.
Testing norms, teaching civics
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
Tony Robinson, 10 years gone
Reflections on how the fatal police shooting of an unarmed, Black teenager changed Madison
Behind the Isthmus cover: March 2025
Cover illustrator Lauden Nute is an abstract, lowbrow artist who specializes in weirdness and texture,” says Isthmus art director Tommy Washbush. And Tommy means that in only the very best way.
