The Political Environment

Constitutional expert Stanley Kutler gives us on the Fighting Bob blog the background to understand where Mitt Romney was trying to take us ...

Murphy Oil is expected to formally approach the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the coming weeks with a plan to fill between 30...

Like everything else in Texas, pollution is big there, too.

Transportation expert Gretchen Schuldt, co-founder of Citizens Allied for Sane Highways (CASH) now has its own blog. You want to know how th...

This time in a religious training center. But the country is so in the grip of the gun lobby that nothing remedial will come if it, just as ...

It's rare that someone delves so deeply into a single item and unearths so many interesting angles - - and can communicate them - - but ...

I'm going to to put up a post Monday, based in large part on the results of several open records requests, to address, in some detail, t...

Interesting story in the Sunday Journal Sentinel about Wisconsin's possible role in advancing the use of so-called cellulosic ethanol - ...

Technological changes to combat or react to climate change will produce millions of new jobs worldwide, according to a new United Nations re...

Ballast water routinely used by cargo ships is a known source of invasive species that is harming the Great Lakes, and with Congress unable ...

I'm increasingly concerned about the attention being paid to GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormonism. I figure it's h...

T.S. Eliot told us that April is the cruelest month, but for people hoping to protect the Great Lakes, December contains some pretty harsh m...

Wisconsin is the dairy state, so when the local power company's transmission wires help kill or injure your herd, the State Supreme Cour...

Lake Michigan continues to fall . That's not stopping City of Waukesha officials from continuing their discussions with a compliant Wi...

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District will always have its PR problems because of occasional overflows - - and it is spending hundr...

Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Toledo, OH are working with the Brookings Institution to organize a regional partnership of chambers of com...

Some of our local talkers are lining up against former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the blended pro-life, sorta populist Republican who has ...

Or something like that, which inevitably will be the right-wing gun fanatics' copping-out denial in the wake of the Omaha massacre. We i...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is awaiting Murphy Oil's first expansion permitting paperwork before the end of the year, ...

James Widgerson, a generally-conservative blogger from Waukesha County, asks the right questions about a new developer's proposal to bui...