Hate is not the foremost feeling here. It’s 7:41 p.m. on Friday, and a “Let’s Go Pacers” chant bounces off the walls of Ballard’s original sports bar. It may be the first such chant Mike’s Chili ...

Each year, we ask schools in the east metro and western Wisconsin for names of their top graduates, however they define them.

Writers also comment on unfunded state mandates, military parades and the value of 'soft power' in foreign policy.