Opinion

A small group of unelected doctors, lawyers and public health policy experts have been meeting to decide who in Wisconsin gets priority for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Have you ever heard of the Wisconsin Coverts Project? I hadn't either. I wasn't sure whether a covert was a spy or a pipe carrying water under a road. I learned that "covert" is a 14th century English word describing a dense thicket that shelters wildlife.

Regardless of how you feel about state or national politics, you should at least be proud of local civics.

For the first time since seemingly anyone can remember, we had a primary for a Reedsburg School Board seat. There’s been so much interest, with people talking about the race and writing letters to the editor.

I shall not be lunching in the park for the foreseeable future. My intrepid park buddies are pretty durable, good down to about 20 degrees. But it just isn't possible to be comfortable sitting around outside in these single digit days.

There was apparently a time when weather never kept kids from school.

Readers visiting Wisconsin Newspaper Association websites said they were optimistic about the next four years.

Out of nearly 670 respondents, 64 percent said they were positive about the next four years. Twenty eight percent were pessimistic, and seven percent were unsure.