The Political Environment

A list of transportation FUBAR's in Walker's 2013-'15 budget. * Commercialization of WisDOT properties . * Authorization of...

From the Walker Rent-To-Own 2013-15 Budget, p. 52-53: This bill allows DOT to enter into sponsorship agreements under which DOT displays a...

From p. 52 of the Walker anti-Milwaukee Vindictive Budget: "This bill repeals a provision of current law that prohibits a southeas...

What Scott Walker's 2013-'15 budget tells us is that there is one vindictive former Milwaukee County Executive sitting in the Govern...

The advisory inquest jury is still out today in the Derek Williams death-in-police-custody case, but just this thought after the testimony o...

Remember that its initial, Penokee Hills tear down phase is projected at about 1,000 feet deep, a half-mile wide and 4.5 miles long - - or ...

I've noted it before, and I'll continue to ask when I see it: Why can't Scott Walker put together a couple of extemporaneous s...

David Clarke exchanged on-air conspiracy and nullification chatter with Alex Jones, the screaming gunophile who raged on Piers Morgan's ...

Essayist Eric Hansen, familiar with the Penokee Hills, is trying to save them : I know this place. After walking 800 miles to assess Wisco...

Not much reason to tune in tomorrow night and watch Scott Walker deliver his 2013-'15 budget address, though we'll still go through ...

In the vernacular of Scott Walker's administration, government is all about the customers. School choice? Expand it, to serve the pare...

Remember that 250,000 new private sector jobs promise? Well, don't expect more from Walker's next budget rolled out Wednesday evenin...

More compassionate conservatism: Prolific Wisconsin lobbyist, hunting enthusiast and former Red Granite (WI)  GOP State Sen. Bob Welch is...

I've heard of hugging trees, but this is the first time I've seen someone chatting with one.  Amazingly, the tree speaks English, ...

Are two heads really better than one? Or is that more of a diversion? And if the two heads are really clones of each other, and conversing, ...

So Walker wants to sell state assets - - buildings, power plants , forests (?), parks (?) - - to cover borrowing for road over-building - - ...

Sorry for the man-bites-dog headline, but I'm passing on Vicki McKenna's observations on child care so you get a real sense of what ...

We've got mining special interests writing Wisconsin mining legislation while donating heavily to legislators and the Governor. The A...

Power-mad Republican legislators in Madison are falling into foot-stomping mode again. They want the rest of the government - - thus const...

Cheryl Nenn of Milwaukee Riverkeeper told it like it is : Several weeks ago, contractors used TIF funds to remove almost all the high-qua...