The Political Environment

So the quadrennial kabuki known as the federal government's review and renewal of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commissio...

The entire 30+page report is worth reading, but here is the executive summary: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At least every four years the Federal Hi...

Thanks to the good folks at One Wisconsin Now, a link to the full report from the Federal Highway Administration recertifying SEWRPC for ano...

I have read in pdf format - - hope to have a link to it to post soon - - the federal report to be released today at 3 p.m. that, as I predic...

Bill McClenahan, the public relations contractor for the Waukesha Water Utility, sent me the following email this morning: "Waukesha ha...

Forget the righty deniers' claim that climate change is a hoax: some scientists say the data demand faster action to attack greenhouse g...

Business leader Sheldon Lubar again says County Government should be blown up.

Is this a good situation?

Federal highway authorities have delayed its release for close to a year, but tomorrow will disclose their decision about whether the Southe...

Let's hope the massive poisoning to begin tomorrow stops the march of the Asian carp towards Lake Michigan. If not, kiss commercial fish...

A West Virginia organization is using the Internet to gather opposition to the disgusting coal-mining practice of mountaintop removal. Detai...

The damage to Wisconsin's urban environment continues unabated. Milwaukee County and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are pressing ...

While the Right (lead by chief science wizard Rush Limbaugh ) escalates its rhetoric about climate science conspiracies based on twisted int...

Much has been written and far more will be said and referenced in the months and years to come about the conditions the City of Milwaukee ha...

From the website Nonprofit Count, a webinar Dec. 3rd. Details here .

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's plan to use discounted Lake Michigan water as a business lure gets a nice ride in The Wall Street Journal,...

I write about once a week for OnMilwaukee.com about the environment: Here is my most recent submission about Waukesha's Lake Michigan di...

The Washington Post explains that there is great dollar value in forests because they store carbon . Which is why owners of timberland are ...

The Journal Sentinel editorially hits the nail on the head: The state Public Service Commission should not, as some commissioners have sign...

You'd think it would be simple to keep manure runoff out of Wisconsin lakes and streams, but opponents are many, so the struggle continu...