Conservative panel for symposium canceled at Medical College of Wisconsin.

The crisis at the UW-Madison this past week should give administrators — and all of us — pause about how we continually fail to support traditionally underrepresented and underserved students.

For far too long, we’ve taken the people who raise, teach and care for children for granted, thanking them with muffins, sticky hugs, warm wishes and poverty wages. Lately, even the hugs and warm wishes are on the decline, as teacher-bashing and a divisive crusade for “parents’ rights” has become a plank in the national Republican platform — a trend that started right here in Wisconsin.

The pundits disagree. And who is the likely Republican opponent?

There are huge differences between the two plans for cities, villages and towns across Wisconsin.

Republican shared revenue bill would bar local advisory referendums.

Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, has introduced a bill to require Wisconsin health care providers to publish prices online for their significant procedures and treatments.

Here in Wisconsin, a volunteer corps of citizens calling itself Wisconsin United to Amend has been working tirelessly to persuade local communities to hold advisory referendums giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to remedy the commercialization of free speech.

In this era of extreme polarization there is growing concern that a new danger is evolving — not the so-called tyranny of the majority that the Bill of Rights addresses, but that of the new tyranny of the minority.

The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.