On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite became anchor of the CBS Evening News.

He would hold the title for nearly 20 years and would become known as “the most trusted man in America.”

New Doty Land Podcast: Historical Nuggets With Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman, And Teddy Roosevelt Quick and memorable historical stories with high production values. Bipartisanship comes alive with Harry Truman and Arthur Vandenberg; Thomas Jefferson wants Italian musicians in our military band…

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Redgranite Library Funding Shortage Rightly Rankles Locals Concerns over budget cuts at the Redgranite Library in Waushara County have created much conversation and disgust in recent weeks, Library board members voiced their concerns over the unexplained a…

It would appear that the shallow end of the swimming pool (Redgranite Village Board) was not thinking about the library funding issue in a constructive fashion that best suits the needs and expectations of the community. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/03/02/r...

Redgranite Library Funding Shortage Rightly Rankles Locals Concerns over budget cuts at the Redgranite Library in Waushara County have created much conversation and disgust in recent weeks, Library board members voiced their concerns over the unexplained a…

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The Crisis of Trust When Justice Is Withheld, Why Revealing Jeffrey Epstein Files About Donald Trump’s Alleged Criminal Sexual Behavior With A 13-Year-Old Girl Matters When leaving a restaurant on Tuesday evening, I passed the bar and asked a man drinking a beer if he was taking a swallow for every lie Donald Trump uttered in his SOTU address. “Do you have …

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Gregory Humphrey’s Caffeinated Politics Is On Substack You can also read Caffeinated Politics on Substack. Promoting and finding the various niches where people seek information and read, while interesting, can also be a bit daunting. While social medi…

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesse Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesse Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesse Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesee Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Used State Representative Lary Swoboda’s Office For Coat Drop During 1988 Statehouse Campaign Rally “ (George) Bush and I have one thing in common, and that is that we both came in second.”  The laughter that filled the large room at the Monona Terrace in Madison in December 2007, following …

Many are forgotten once they drift from an elected position. A very few are remembered decades later not for winning, but for striving. Jesse Jackson was such a man. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/17/r...

Federal Judge’s Ruling For Senator Mark Kelly, Against Pete Hegseth, Uses Exclamation Point! My husband and I read court rulings in cases that land at the center of our national strife. Today, we remarked on not being able to recall when an exclamation point was used to make a federal judg…

Federal Judge's Ruling For Senator Mark Kelly, Against Pete Hegseth, Uses Exclamation Point! caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/02/12/f...

Children Pay No Fee To Enter Classroom, Why Pay A Fee For Lunch? Above the fold in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal, readers were again discovering the latest about a topic that our public schools simply need to address head-on. The Madison Scho…

Children Pay No Fee To Enter Classroom, Why Pay A Fee For Lunch? caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/01/25/c...

Letter From Home: Heartstopper And Hancock 1/23/26 Last fall, at Barnes & Noble, thanks to a large display near an entrance to the bookstore, I first became aware of Alice Oseman, and the Heartstopper series. Several books of her work were prom…

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Kites On Ice, Smiles From Madison’s Yesterday Bert and Ernie above, and Gregory Humphrey and James Wilson during Kites On Ice I looked out at the huge expanse of open water on Lake Monona today and thought immediately of rich memories from two…

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Rule Of Law Broken In Trump’s Military Strike On Venezuela, Process Matters Process matters. People who engage with me about topics of the day, whether it is stated in words or not, know that I am a process democrat. I firmly believe that the manner in which governing take…

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Madison Independent Police Monitor Like Small Boy Dressing In Dad’s Clothes “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ― Garry Kasparov. It is a travesty for the Madison In…

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Weakness In Standing Up To Putin Emboldens Xi The calendar has opened to a New Year, but the severe tests confronting the world remain the same as when we closed out the old year. Once again, the threats from large, powerful militaries are eve…

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DXing Captivated Young And Old Alike I came across the following diary entries from my husband’s 2nd great-grandfather, George Rowe, who was born just before the Civil War started in 1860. That means he was about 62 years old at…

In early days of radio (1920’s), stations weren't sure how far signals reached, so asked listeners to send in reports of when, where signal was heard. Station would then send out postcards to listeners. It was from this beginning that DXing was born. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/01/01/d...

Let This Be Our Path For 2026 There is a story I would like to retell as we start the New Year. The story resonates given what our nation witnessed in 2025. The growing revulsion with the overly broad, callous, and demeaning ma…

It deeply anguishes me when faiths are maligned, brown-skinned people with different-sounding names get treated with outright bigotry. Our nation is being severely tested as to what our values, ideals are, both as Americans and human beings. caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/01/01/l...

Gregory Humphrey And Humphrey History Minutes Interesting and quickly told historical stories from a former radio announcer. As a 50-year-plus history buff, I enjoy adding snippets of the past into fast segments that can be told during dinner pa...

Interesting, quickly told historical stories from a former radio announcer. As a history buff for over 50 years, I enjoy adding snippets of the past into brief segments that can be shared during dinner parties, over cups of coffee. www.youtube.com/@Trevorjames...

Caffeinated Politics Returns With Opinions And Musings January 1st, 2026 Visit the post for more.

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Nino Amato Wants You To Care About Gun Violence In Our Nation, Support Reasoned Proposals One of Madison’s sound public voices and civic-minded citizens posted a thoughtful and needed statement on Next Door about what can be done to curtail gun violence. Nino Amato wrote what I th…

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In the midst of winter white on the Madison isthmus a solitary shrunken green leaf on a cherry tree shows determination to hold on.