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Doug Moe -- columnist
For the past 11 years, Doug Moe was a daily voice from The Capital Times for readers, and you couldn't ask for a more engaging or dependable companion. In those 11 years, he wrote more than 3,000 columns -- often six a week -- in the mold of idols like Mike Royko.
Raised on the west side, Doug knows Madison from the inside out and his readers came to as well. He introduced newcomers to characters like poker bad boy Phil Hellmuth and Suey Wong, son of Bot Mo ("honorable mother"), who was the matriarch of the Golden Dragon restaurant on the Square.
A reporter as well as a storyteller, Doug probed local folklore like the Playboy article (a myth, as it turns out) that refused to rank UW as party school because its students were professionals, not amateurs, when it came to partying. And he established that Madison is in fact 77 (and counting) square miles surrounded by reality.
Doug has a touch so deft it's hard to notice if you don't write columns yourself. His 800-word account of December evictions on Allied Drive told more about life on that troubled street than the millions of other words written about it over the years. His column about the man who had a heart attack while he was interviewing him was riveting, honest and not a bit self-congratulatory.
Doug, who took the Cap Times transition as an occasion to move his daily column to the Wisconsin State Journal, raises two children and writes a book every year in his spare time. The last book was on the history of UW collegiate boxing. This year it's on Brett Favre's 20 greatest games.
From Chris Murphy, city editor
Doug Moe
