Dave Zweifel

Editor Emeritus at Wisconsin State Journal

Editor Emeritus at The Cap Times

Farm kid from New Glarus, 59 years with The Capital Times in Madison, editor for 25, emeritus editor who still slams politicians and writes about real people.

Articles

Opinion | For GOP, the undoing of America is getting 'back on track'

5 days ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

Here, for your edification, is the newsletter Donald Trump toady Scott Fitzgerald, who represents the folks who live in Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District, sent to his constituents last week. It's an example of why, during the past three months, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives has allowed Trump to usurp most of its constitutional powers. "Last week marked a significant moment in Washington — 100 days of President Trump being back in the White House.
Opinion | First 100 days: FDR vs. Trump

1 week ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

David Remnick, longtime editor of the venerable magazine The New Yorker, did a masterful job in a recent issue comparing Donald Trump's first days in office with Franklin D. Roosevelt's first days back in 1933. "Since beginning his second term ...
Opinion | Constituents fume as Van Orden plays hide-and-seek

1 week ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

Derrick Van Orden has been running away from his constituents in his western Wisconsin congressional district when he probably should be running away from his pal, Donald Trump. It's doubtful that Trump did Van Orden any favors this week when, a full 19 months before the 2026 congressional elections, the president decided that he needed to endorse the Prairie du Chien Republican for reelection.
Opinion | We need to protect sandhill cranes and other grassland birds

2 weeks ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

I have to admit, I was ready to join the hunting advocates who want the state to OK an annual sandhill crane season when the two that walk around my yard decided to peck a hole in the screen on my backyard porch. But I quickly gained my senses after I realized it was my human behavior that undoubtedly set off their pecking frenzy. It's mating season, after all, and the males around us are busy protecting what's theirs.
Opinion | In today's America, cruelty is the point

3 weeks ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

What kind of people are these? That's the question I ask myself nearly every day now when I open the paper and read about the latest atrocities being committed by the people that were elected to run our country. What kind of people would yank a visa from an Indian student without explanation a month before he is to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, where he's been studying and paying tuition the past four years?
Opinion | Other schools do baseball. Why can't UW-Madison?

3 weeks ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

From high school diamonds to overbuilt and expensive Major League palaces, another season of America's best sport is back in full swing. And college and university baseball facilities are brimming with activity as the best of former high schoolers strut their stuff hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts. That is, the game is on at campuses everywhere except at our beloved University of Wisconsin.
Opinion | A tale of justice in two cities

3 weeks ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

Milwaukee blogger Chris Liebenthal began posting back when then Gov. Scott Walker was demolishing public employee unions, sparking a backlash still being dealt with today. His blog, with the strange name Cognitive Dissidence, draws a decent audience obviously interested in his take on Wisconsin and Milwaukee goings-on. We often include links to it in our daily opinion feature State Debate. Earlier this week he took a look at a Madison news story that had me nodding my head in agreement.
Opinion | Crime fighting efforts should start with Trump's buddies

1 month ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

During last fall's presidential debate and in dozens of campaign stops, Donald Trump accused Joe Biden of releasing “millions” of criminals on America's citizens through his lax immigration policies. Why did he allow millions of people from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come in and destroy our country, he demanded. Later, in New Hampshire, he claimed 15 million criminals had been allowed entry to the U.S.The charge was, of course, absurd.
Opinion | Way more Waymos in our future

1 month ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

Spent three weeks in Phoenix last month preparing for the new baseball season (I'm still having trouble with the curve) and was astounded by one car model that seemed to be everywhere on the city's streets. And no one was driving them!It's a vehicle known as a Waymo, and it's become as ubiquitous in shepherding people around the Phoenix area as Uber and Lyft (and the now nearly extinct taxi cab).
Opinion | Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security; he lied

1 month ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

No one in Congress watches out for the often voiceless in America more than Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat whom Donald Trump derisively calls Pocahontas because she once claimed to have partial Native Amercan ancestry.

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