The Political Environment

So the ball is in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' special-interest court . Call him and tell him to schedule the vote now:  (608) 266-9171...

Paul Ryan has decided to run over poor school children, unemployed workers and other low-income Americans on a path to the 2016 GOP presiden...

The Wisconsin Assembly Speaker adds his own procedural tricks to stall a bill with broad support - - though not from Scott Walker and Senat...

I'd noted over the weeken d that veteran Ohio newspaper reporter Tom Henry had published in the Toledo Blade a long look at Waukesha...

People in Milwaukee's Story Hill neighborhood north of Miller Park where WisDOT wants to build an eight-lane, double-decked monstrosity...

[Updated Sunday, 12:30 p.m.] The headline, photo and story below say it all as the Legislature heads to adjournment, so I write in protest ...

I hope everyone remembers this little note I pulled off State Sen. Bob Jauch's Facebook page tonight as plans proceed for a 4.5 mile lon...

Damage control , as his minority colleagues know Ryan meant exactly what he said, had heard it before , saw right through it and his follow-...

I've written often on this blog - - here , or here - - that Waukesha's intense push for a Lake Michigan diversion under the Great L...

Just another week at the office for Scott Walker , Paul Ryan and Scott Fitzgerald with their their hands out to special interests while kick...

Red state voters have to understand they are voting against their own interests, and blue state voters need to make income inequality the is...

Though Scott Walker promised repeatedly in his 2010 and 2012 gubernatorial campaigns he'd oversee the creation of 250,000 new private-se...

As has been continually reported on this blog and elsewhere, Scott Walker is impossibly far from meeting his 250,000 new private-sector job...

The  Journal Sentinel  reports that some Wisconsin cancer patients can't get a vote scheduled on a drug coverage bill opposed by insuran...

For the record:  Formerly smart-guy Paul Ryan's blaming his lack of articulation for his smear of inner-city men - - " Rep. Paul R...

A note from those working to save Wisconsin's constitutionally-protected groundwater: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : March 12, 2014   Con...

A lot of the focus on GOP State Senate-approved limitations  to in-person absentee voting in Wisconsin statewide has been on its intentional...