The Political Environment

Waukesha County is a Republican Party stronghold, but turnout there in the Tuesday primary suggests that the candidates they fielded, notabl...

A group of 19 Wisconsin business and trade organizations sent the Wisconsin legislature a letter on Tuesday that would have put a smile on G...

Indiana became the third state to approve the Great Lakes Compact, and with a bill through the New York state legislature awaiting the Gover...

Newly-appointed Public Policy Forum Executive Director Rob Henken may find the headline a bit inaccurate, since Rob has been involved for ye...

The Atlantic Magazine offers a prediction that should make the planners of Pabst Farms, et al, think twice about that public and private in...

Another report documents the relationship between warming temperatures, lower Lake Superior water levels, and economic losses. Food for tho...

I said in a pre-primary blog posting that I was making a note of Mark Belling's prediction of a Mike Huckabee win on the GOP side of the...

The next installment of a never-ending series on this here blog, "The Road To Sprawville," today runs into a bit of congestion and...

Our son Sam McGovern-Rowen ran third in the eight-person field vying for the Milwaukee Third District race, so he does not advance to the ge...

I get to vote today for my son Sam McGovern-Rowen for Milwaukee Third District Alderman. He's run a positive, issue-based and mature cam...

Noting the potential harm to the Great Lakes inherent in obstructionist legislative tactics in Ohio and Wisconsin, the Great Lakes Governors...

The Assembly GOP leaders who threw a monkey-wrench last week into what was supposed to be a bi-partisan approach to Wisconsin's approval...

The reviews keep coming in about the GOP's game-playing on the Great Lakes Compact, and the theme is pretty consistent. This time it...

The Madison law firm of Cullen Weston Pines and Bach goes green by meeting 100% of its energy needs from renewable sources. Cullen Weston Pi...

No one should be surprised that Wisconsin Assembly Republican legislative leaders could "gut" the Great Lakes Compact - - as Wisco...

Scientists are claiming that federal officials suppressed a report about health risks in the Great Lakes region traced to toxins in the envi...

Media and public officials are discovering the Great Lakes Compact sabotage that got underway publicly last week by GOP lawmakers from Wisco...

There's much about Milwaukee that is positive, but little publicized: Tom Daykin at the Journal Sentinel shines a little light on new C...

Superior's Daily Telegram tells it like it is , ripping GOP assembly leaders for trying to sandbag the pending Great Lakes Compact agree...

Ill-timed actions by GOP Assembly Republicans to"gut" the pending Great Lakes Compact could bring economic harm to Waukesha commun...