The Cap Times

The Capital Times, often referred to as Cap Times, is a newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin, and is operated by The Capital Times Company. It serves a 19-county area in south-central Wisconsin. Previously, the newspaper released print editions from Monday to Saturday, with weekday circulation figures of 19,355 and Saturday numbers reaching 21,065. However, as of April 26, 2008, it stopped publishing daily paper editions and transitioned to a mainly online news format, while still offering free printed supplements twice a week.

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How President Trump’s budget could cut housing services in Dane County

3 days ago | captimes.com | Enjoyiana Nururdin

President Donald Trump’s budget plans for next year could threaten to roll back funding levels for housing and homelessness programs in Dane County, according to service providers in the area. While Congress ultimately has the power to allocate federal funds, the president’s plans seek a restructuring of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that a national housing group found would cut nearly 50% of the department’s budget.
Opinion | Tim Walz to bring his everyman appeal to Cap Times Idea Fest

4 days ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Speaking this spring in Youngstown, Ohio, Tim Walz was asked how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump. “Probably the last guy” to lecture the party “is the guy who got his ass kicked in the last election,” answered its 2024 candidate for vice president. It’s a line Walz uses regularly, wrote Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. “Audiences laugh at this, always,” he wrote.
Opinion | Medicaid cut sarcasm spells political trouble for the GOP

4 days ago | captimes.com | John Nichols

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has been arguing for months that the way to upend GOP control of the House and Senate is by simply encouraging his conservative colleagues to reveal their own cruelty. “When they show up for actual town meetings, which is not very often, they can’t help themselves.
Opinion | Tim Walz brings his everyman appeal to Cap Times Idea Fest

5 days ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Speaking this spring in Youngstown, Ohio, Tim Walz was asked how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump. “Probably the last guy” to lecture the party “is the guy who got his ass kicked in the last election,” answered its 2024 candidate for vice president. It’s a line Walz uses regularly, wrote Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. “Audiences laugh at this, always,” he wrote.
Abortion bans harm care for pregnancy problems, UW-Madison study says

5 days ago | captimes.com | Erin McGroarty

As Wisconsin awaits a ruling from the state Supreme Court on an 1849 law that was used to forbid abortions, research from a Madison group shows that such bans limit doctors’ ability to provide general pregnancy care.
Striking Meriter nurses call out hospital over threat to strip insurance

1 week ago | captimes.com | Alex Moe

Nurses have filed a federal complaint alleging unfair labor practices after Madison's UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital told them they would lose their health insurance if they went on strike. An estimated 500 nurses started a weeklong strike Tuesday morning, claiming Meriter management has failed to properly address their union's demands for higher pay, more staffing and improved workplace security.
High cost of breast cancer screens would shrink under new bill

1 week ago | captimes.com | Erin McGroarty

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is trying, for the third session in a row, to pass a bill that would eliminate co-pays and cost-sharing expenses for breast cancer screenings and supplemental scans needed for women with an increased risk of breast cancer. Nearly half of all women have the type of dense breast tissue that puts them at higher risk of developing breast cancer and often requires them to receive more than one standard annual mammogram to detect breast cancer.
Affordable housing a top issue in Dane County Board special election

1 week ago | captimes.com | Enjoyiana Nururdin

Residents of downtown Madison are voting over the next few weeks to elect a new representative on the Dane County Board. Former Supervisor Elizabeth Doyle, who was elected in 2019, resigned from the County Board’s District 1 seat in March. To fill the vacant position, the county will administer a special election on Tuesday, June 17. The County Board is made up of 37 legislators across Dane County.
Opinion | Can't we just make America good again?

1 week ago | captimes.com | Dave Zweifel

Because of it's location next to several military bases, Fredericksburg, Virginia, is home to tens of thousands of veterans and active-duty personnel. The city and its surrounding communities also have resettled more Afghan refugees per capita than any other state. These are the refugees who risked their lives fighting alongside U.S. troops against the Taliban. Many were whisked out of the country just as the U.S. ended its involvement in that 10-year war.
Advocates urge ban on subminimum wages for people with disabilities

1 week ago | captimes.com | Alex Moe

Rather than jobs in sheltered workshops, more people with disabilities are turning to a job placement model known as "competitive integrated employment." Rebecca Hoyt, a disability rights and services specialist for the city of Madison, described the model as trying to better match workers with tasks that fit their abilities and interests rather than limiting them to repetitive, manual tasks - and in this model, workers are paid at least the state's $7.25 per hour minimum wage.