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Opinion

Take steps to protect against identity theft

Editorial

It’s Identity Theft Awareness Week. To help consumers and taxpayers protect themselves from identity theft, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Wisconsin Department of Revenue are partnering to promote best practices for identity theft prevention and ...

The wrong narrative about Minneapolis

Local columns

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who, according to DHS and ICE officials, was used as “bait” to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had ...

Minneapolis shooting scrambles 2nd Amendment politics for Trump

Local columns

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration's characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully ...

Almanac for Jan. 28, 2026

Local columns

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2026. There are 337 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Also on ...

Americans deserve the truth on shootings in Minneapolis

Editorial

The federal government owes Americans a thorough investigation and a truthful accounting of the Saturday morning shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on a Minneapolis street. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump ...