It is bad enough that legislative leaders in Madison want to take power away from their successors. They have hatched a plan to limit the powers...
I am quite weary of hearing the nasal tone of Scott Robert Shaw with his poorly conceived, single-minded, repetitious monologues, droning on with his prejudiced overview...
Leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature are starting to look a little desperate. Stung by losses in the recent election which saw democrats capture the governor’s office,...
Each election season we are bombarded by negative ads. They are more frequent, and more nasty. All designed to spread mis-truths and outright lies, to convince...
The issue of gerrymandering has been in the news a lot in Wisconsin. The way that legislative boundaries were drawn after the last census was done...
The Wisconsin legislature is not scheduled to meet again this year. But in the wake of the election, republicans in control of the legislature may try...
In Wisconsin, the public records law is pretty clear. Basically, government records are considered to be open and available to the public except in very rare...
It may be time for Wisconsin’s much maligned job creation agency to get a pink slip. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has been a colossal waste...
La Crosse Center expansion plans, take two. Months after the city said no to controversial design plans for a multi-million dollar makeover of La Crosse’s convention...
Happy Thanksgiving. Today is a day for giving thanks, something that I don’t do often enough. I am thankful for my family and friends. I am...
They’re still not done playing politics in Madison. State lawmakers are considering adopting new rules to restrict the powers of Governor-elect Tony Evers, before he even...
Did marijuana help Tony Evers defeat Scott Walker? According to a new study, the answer is yes. But it seems such a surmise may be misleading....
To most of us it seems obvious. The state’s public records laws should also extend to those who wrote the laws. But that is not the...
Apparently Wisconsin’s deal with Foxconn was not a cautionary tale for the states of New York and Virginia. Those two states have won the Amazon lottery,...
One might think that a celebration of free speech would be a bit controversial. Who would have thought inviting a former porn star to a university...
It is, after all, called the Department of Corrections, not the Department of Punishment. The very name implies an attempt to correct the behavior that landed...
More money for public schools. We heard that during Wisconsin’s gubernatorial campaign from now Governor-elect Tony Evers. In his new role, Evers says he plans to...
With Tony Evers winning election as Wisconsin’s next governor, what will that mean for Foxconn? Many democrats have been critical of the billions of dollars in...
Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters selected Tony Evers to serve as the state’s next Governor. Less than 24 hours later, Republicans in...
Despite the overwhelming lack of evidence, we continue to hear candidates warn of election fraud. We heard it in the final days of the recent...