The Political Environment

Like a home seller leaving behind a hidden termite nest in the foundation, Scott Walker walked away from Milwaukee County government in 2010...

The highest-profile candidates in the GOP primary race for the Wisconsin Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Herb Kohl are also in a conte...

Fresh off his pre-teen screed about poor people , Republican Senate candidate and Goofmesiter Eric Hovde offers up more fringy standup by ca...

The State Revenue Department's latest "full report" economic forecast says Wisconsin will lag the national recovery at the en...

Federal grant funds for an Amtrak line running through Waukesha linking Madison and Milwaukee? Can't have that. Too expensive. After a...

One of the issues raised at Wednesday's meeting in Milwaukee City Hall was whether changes could be made to the territory in which the C...

Duluth floods . Heaviest rains since 1909. I've been posting versions of this warning for years : Then-Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist...

Records reviewed by The Washington Post show Bain Capital helped move jobs overseas . Romney better our-source his criticism of those pra...

Nice work by One Wisconsin Now - - keeping sunlight on the process. Disclosure - - I am on the OWN C-3 issues board, but had no role in ...

I posted information from the PSC's letter yesterday, and finally can supply a link to it. Try this one. This was the lede on the p...

Here's a bit of a summary. Thanks for sticking with it. How contradictory and hypocritical is it for the small government conservati...

Both Waukesha and the DNR are saying that the entire five-community water service territory as laid out in Waukesha's Lake Michigan dive...

Water for growth in Waukesha County has a champion high up in the DNR. Matt Moroney, an attorney and former SE Wisconsin home builders...

Word on the street has been that the Waukesha Water Utility had something up its sleeve to help goose along its Great Lakes water applicatio...

A reader sent these pictures yesterday: The land is on the west side of Hwy 164/Townline Rd, which is actually 3.3 miles south of the Wa...

The DNR today has said Milwaukee cannot negotiate a water sale only with Waukesha if four neighboring communities that did not ask to be in...

Props to the Milwaukee Common Council Public Works Committee and Mayor Barrett for making it clear that t hey will negotiate with the City o...

Remember that Journal Sentinel edit board vote of confidence for more pipeline capacity in Wisconsin for Enbridge, the tar sand crude oil sh...

The Journal Sentinel editorial board has again weighed in with support for Waukesha's Great Lakes water diversion application. Nothin...

Is this case part of the GOP's fraud narrative surrounding the Racine election and recount? A complaint has been filed against the co...