The Political Environment

As I'd predicted  here more than once, Gov. Walker told the AP today he will sign  a bill to make it easier for Wisconsin school distri...

Gov. Walker seems inclined today to sign the bill pushed by far-right GOP legislators like New Berlin's Mary Lazich to help local schoo...

First of all, read this  exhaustively-investigated story by a Pulitzer Prize winner reported to the limits of sourcing and available documen...

Remember when Assembly GOP leader and unreliable prognosticator Robin Vos said jobs would "take off like a rocket" when Walker w...

Under Walker, Wisconsin is earning an "F" in economics. Despite his having a compliant Legislature, chairing a new jobs agency (...

When State GOP Assemblyman and second state husband Joel Kleefisch isn't breaking expensive state deer hunting rules, salivating over ma...

There has been a lot of constructive and illuminating discussion in our state recently about cruelty to animals spurred by the posting of a ...

It becomes state law automatically, to Wisconsin's shame. A veto of the  bill would be uncharacteristically gutsy (moderate). A signat...

Not some narcissistic co-authored political novella pretending to be non-fiction. This: American Indian group living in extreme weather...

Wisconsin's DNR cuts through the climate change fog and delivers a profound message with compelling information and data to a clean air ...

Unlike the other Great Lakes states, Michigan is virtually inside the waters'  basin, so efforts to divert water away from the basin as ...

As all eight Great Lakes Governors under the Great Lakes Compact of 2008 must approve Waukesha's plan to divert water from Lake Michigan...

When it comes to following the rules, this sportsmens group is said to have "dropped the complete ball," while  this leading spor...

Big dairies could be among the groundwater polluters , even as GOP legislators move to further de-regulate large users:  Lincoln resident ...

Let alone explain these worst ratings, on his watch, to us ? * Binge drinking. * Biggest drop in health among states. * Increase in r...

Bad enough that GOP Assembly Representative and second state spouse Joel Kleefisch quietly paid a $243 forfeiture in Waukesha County Court f...

Wisconsin legislators in thrall to hunting and gun groups, and led by the Lt. Governor's legislator-spouse who quietly paid this year a ...

Walker'll finally show support for transit when there is a bus to throw Ryan under . Especially if this trend continues: Polling in...

Bob Rucho   @ SenatorBobRucho Justice Robert's pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis,S...

As noted before , our narcissistic Gov. Walker  can't help himself : “Paul is one of those rare people in Washington who’s acting more...