The Political Environment

fyi: BBCBreaking 1h Police officer dies after being shot on # MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

OSHA hadn't inspected the exploded West, TX fertilizer plan since 1985 , says the AP. The plant had been allowed to open without a per...

He's finally asked by media about his position on expanded background checks for gun buyers, and manages to say it's a federal resp...

This is a defeat for people.

Contributions were victorious over children. Political and partisan power prevailed over people's lives. Fabricated fears of governm...

The pro-Walker and right-wing advocacy machine raised eyebrows all over town with the stunning finding that despite federal data and state a...

There's talk of voluntary, large-scale annexations of Town of Waukesha acreage to the City of Waukesha if the City's application f...

Another keeper from Al Gedicks.

I'm looking forward to an identical and coordinated law enforcement, state legislative and Wisconsin gubernatorial attack on tax evasio...

We need more of this attitude : WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Tuesday that if Republicans don't join efforts to...

Some of the advantages- - employment gains, reduced consumer costs, fewer new power plants and overhead transmission lines : Utilities sa...

The more that large farming and dairy operations expand towards smaller farms and residential settings, the more that airborne manure irriga...

As Wisconsin environmental regulation is relaxed for ideological purposes or the convenience of business - - here, or here . for examples -...

The headline tells the story : Rick Perry Invites Gun Manufacturers to Set Up Shop in Texas Same goes for a Mississippi state legislat...

It will be interesting to see if Walkerite GOP legislators now running the show will schedule hearings on a package of bills authored by St...

*  Rare lung cancer risk to miners, documented . *  Acid mine drainage threat to Bad River watershed, rice-growing waters, ignored .

A must-read-story: The longer one works in the taconite mines on the Minnesota range, the greater is their risk of the same kind of lung c...

Wisconsin legislators at the behest of Gov. Walker failed at their jobs  - - from writing the iron mining bill in secret - - but with the pa...

Disturbing evidence : They’re finding tiny, perfectly round beads of plastic in many of the samples, and this might hold another clue abo...

Dogs should be banned from the Wisconsin wolf hunt, according to a court filing announced today by a coalition of humane society organizatio...