The Political Environment

It was just a few years ago that the $810 million Marquette Interchange project to 'modernize' the layout and reduce congestion in i...

Am hearing there is some sort of reverse privatization and state takeover of Circus World Museum in Walker's budget - - the Museum is ...

Wisconsin corporate leader and former Milwaukee Sentinel business editor John Torinus suggests on his blog that GTAC mining and opponents to...

Good question, as posed by Denny Caneff, Executive Director of River Alliance of Wisconsin, in a Journal Sentinel op-ed Monday: The ...

We've all heard that the Asian carp will penetrate the Great Lakes through the Chicago shipping canal, but it's likely they will com...

Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist noted when showing his infamous slide show/power point about cities, development and sprawl that things...

The State Supreme Court will ultimately look at the constitutional issues involved, but a unanimous Appeals Court today found that portions ...

Scott Walker, his donor friends at the Florida-based GTAC coal mining company and their allies are trying to sell as environmentally-friendl...

I wrote this over the weekend about the spin that Scott Walker would put on massive open pit mining his #1 legislative priority would wreak...

Gov. Walker gets to star at t he announcement on the lakefront today about reconfiguring I-794, the Hoan Bridge and Clybourn St. to free up...

Who may run for President - - and they say he's the smart one in the family :   Jeb Bush: Obama won reelection by ‘dividing the count...

Proposing the ending of Obamacare is an instant loser. See: election 2012, outcome.

How about a version of this New York Times feature ? The Gun Report: March 9, 2013 And my answer to the Times' questio...

I put the Journal Sentinel's Sunday middle-ground mining editorial into context on the paper's Purple Wisconsin site, and add my o...

Gov. Walker will sign the mining bill Monday afternoon at manufacturing companies in Rhinelander and Milwaukee. He will tout the bill and ...

The water and border wars between the City and Town of Waukesha had led the Town recently to withhold most of its acreage from possible futu...

A must-read . Wisconsin's new mining law attaches no importance to the treaties. When it considers the company's application to m...

I'd posted the other day that PR types in Walker's office and elsewhere would recommend he sign the mining bill creating open-pit d...

A couple of weeks ago, citing records of a WisDOT meeting about the Zoo Interchange, I wrote this post about ghost/anonymous blogging : T...

While we lead the nation in the number of governors' legal defense funds financed by fat cat donors, we're dead last in percentage c...