The Political Environment

Scott Walker exhorts the state GOP to raise money for Republican senators who are being recalled because of his recklessness. I've jus...

The number of Republican Senators who vote against Wisconsin Wunderkind Paul Ryan's Medicare demolition plan later this week will tell u...

Don Behm lays out the steps ahead assuming the DNR begins its formal review of a precedent-setting bid by the City of Waukesha to divert wat...

Thanks for sticking with me. Pro-Business DNR "Charter" Agency, Wisconsin's Fir... May 15, 2011    U...

As Newt Gingrich said, people don't like social engineering from the right .

I'm glad that PolitiFact reports Scott Walker is breaking a pledge against raising taxes - - something we've been following here f...

Yes, in extremis -"in the farthest reaches." Look at the 180-degree turn by State Senator Alberta Darling, (R-River Hills) - - f...

The Waukesha Patch online reporting service follows the city's cut-out-the-Mayor politicking . Government by fiefdom in Waukesha ci...

With Bill Lueders leaving Isthmus next month, the job of News Editor becomes available. The search is on. For information, contact Dean...

Somebody's been doing her homework up in River Hills. State Sen. Alberta Darling's absurd explanation that cutting 30%, and hundre...

Amen . But which Republican legislative leader has the independence from Scott Walker AND the highway lobby to make this case?

A writer from California sends this message: I'm watching Neil Cavuto on Fox right now, and he was talking about how the media didn...

The Joint Committee on Finance approves deep short-and-long-term cuts in the borrowing and resources that fund Wisconsin's popular, bi-p...

Democrats on the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance should have tried to amend restrictions on poor women's access t...

They're not interested in bottling the water, or otherwise exploiting it, and to make their point, they've already walked each lake...

Near Ashland, Wisconsin, and Lake Superior? How about Baffin Island, too , thanks to climate change . That's in the Arctic Archipe...

State Sen. Alberta Darling, (R-River Hills), had been a champion of women's rights and a member of Planned Parenthood's board. Bac...

Republicans decided to walk away from the Ryan plan that Newt Gingrich called unacceptably "radical" because GOP pols saw the po...

Long-time friend and political ally Roberta Gassman has a great new gig at the US Department of Labor - - and given labor's travails un...

By today's cut-throat conservatives .