Gov. Tony Evers’ budget doesn’t envision closing the state’s troubled youth prisons in northern Wisconsin until after a new juvenile facility …
Wisconsin dairy farmers were treading water in 2020, kept afloat by direct payments from the federal government. The aid resulted in a sharp d…
Wisconsin lawmakers will soon begin redrawing congressional and state voting boundaries, in accordance with the latest Census. It’s a good tim…
Editor’s Note: Public notices are currently under fire in the Wisconsin Legislature. The state Senate recently approved SB 55, which would rem…
There’s a word for the great pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune: schadenfreude. Ted Cruz, normally known as a royal pain, is once…
Throughout the pandemic, the press has been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the e…
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson faces even more re-election pressure as he strengthens ties to Donald Trump after the impeachment trial, a labor group l…
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This past year has been tumultuous to say the least. We’ve missed out on time spent with friends and family, community events, festivals and o…
In a traditional university setting, students learn and grow through their interactions with peers and faculty. This sort of engagement – in a…
Governor Tony Evers ran on a promise to repair our deteriorating roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure. The governor made goo…
It would be a first for the National Portrait Gallery: The picture of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, would be a mug shot.
It’s an old political trick to make an easily achievable goal sound vauntingly ambitious in order to brag about it when it’s inevitably met.
The majority-Republican Legislature is likely to block Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal to legalize recreational marijuana in Wisconsin, but a…
As a member of the Dane County Board, one of my most important responsibilities is to make sure taxpayer money is spent wisely. Dane County ha…
The Wisconsin legislature is currently considering a bill that would give local governments the option to stop publishing a summary of their a…
Just under a year ago, Demetrius Williams committed unspeakable acts of evil. Williams, who was upset with his pregnant girlfriend, nearly sta…
It’s funny how legacies can work. Abraham Lincoln ended the practice of American slavery, inspiring Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal…
After losing a national election, it’s natural that a political party goes through a period of soul-searching and internal turmoil.
Lobbying efforts took a big hit last session as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, but a WisPolitics.com review found that, in many ways, the influe…
Making effective public policy takes more than good ideas and familiarity with the issues.
Wisconsin's Alice in Dairyland, Julia Nunes, notes that Ginseng sets Wisconsin agriculture apart and puts the state on the map for ginseng lov…
There’s one overriding reason I favor going ahead with the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump: We cannot allow these violent f…
President Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone.
Wisconsin lawmakers in 2020 claimed per diems totaling $555,149, about 70 percent of what they took home in the previous election year, as the…
To keep each other safe, we’ve been asked to add barriers — distance and masks — to our face-to-face interaction. We also have videoconferenci…
With the month of February representing Career and Technical Education Month in our state and across the nation, there is no better time to re…
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Journalists have lurched from finding a threat to freedom to the press in every criticism of reporters and news outlets by former President Do…
