The Political Environment

The Republican-inspired Voter ID bill in Wisconsin - - included quite fairly in a national media account about the "rank partisanship...

A citizens' group that supports Waukesha Mayor Jeff Scrima and is unhappy with the way the Common Council has isolated him in City Hall ...

Props to State Sen. Bob Jauch, (D-Poplar), conservation activists and others who delayed by raising holy hell a special interest, industry-l...

Once Gov. Walker signs the ideologically-driven concealed carry bill , print shops will be working overtime to turn out images like this for...

Walker will sign it anyway , putting everyone at risk.

[Thursday update] Waukesha's Common Council for the second time voted Tuesday night to keep Mayor Jeff Scrima off the city's negot...

Within 15 minutes this morning, The Journal Sentinel posted these items on its News Watch: The Wisconsin Assembly is about to approve the...

If water is your issue, the place to be Tuesday night is the City of Waukesha Common Council meeting, where water-related political and poli...

They've made voting harder with their discriminatory Wisconsin Voter ID (read: Suppression) bill. They're openly, shamelessly runn...

I had thrown out questions about judicial ethics in light of last week's State Supreme Court ruling upholding Scott Walker's contr...

Walker and the legislature have crafted and passed tax breaks for the wealthy and business: people out of work can starve, as the state refu...

No surprises allowed, he said , as he combs through the budget looking for line-item veto opportunities. I guess Walker is the only one wh...

So says whistling-past-the-political-graveyard, recall-contemplating Scott Walker : “The average citizen in Wisconsin I talk to, it’s like...

In the uproar following the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling that validated the Walker union-busting bill's approval, and espec...

Milwaukee has aging sewage and flood control infrastructure. It needs upgrades . The Walker budget reduces state aid for these projects,...

We are told that justice delayed is justice denied. So what of justice deprived? Justice destroyed. Which is where conservatives on Su...

Walker loves the microphone . Talk radio helped create him. So think of two hours on the appropriately named "Squawk Box" as an ...

And a shout-out to the Capital Times for having helped elevate a posting about talk radio to the number-one slot. The five-most read items...

I thought I'd publish from t he Wisconsin State Supreme Court's website the full text of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson's dis...