The Political Environment

You must live on the International Space Station if you didn't know that Wisconsin roads are sporting potholes which appear to be creat...

There's good news and bad news for Wisconsin and Gov. Walker in the latest  workforce numbers . Let's get the bad news out of the...

CNN had its chance to focus the debate Wednesday night on climate change, but blew it, as did some of the candidates, predictably.  I gue...

The public can still push for greater conservation in the plan to restore the former Baraboo ammunition works property, but it's grati...

[Updated, with photos, from 10:57 a.m.] Bus shelters are banned in Brookfield, the Waukesha County suburb bordering Milwaukee. Some of th...

Just a tease to this reposted item about Brookfield barring bus shelters. While other nearby communities have figured out how to live an...

I know it's hard to keep up with (and to  stomach reading about ) the pollution  of Wisconsin groundwater by mega- dairies - - here...

Good to see that a proposal to take water out of a small north woods Wisconsin lake  - - I'd just written about it - -  has come and go...

The divide between progressive Minnesota and the Wreakhavocstan that Wisconsin has become under Walkerite Republicans is highlighted today ...

Remember when Australia was burning - - as is  California and US West - - with climate change believed to be making a bad situation worse?...

[Updated] For your climate change  file - - an issue unlikely to take center stage at Wednesday's GOP debate in California though the s...

[Updated] The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, despite its overt corporatization , is still telling the world on its website - -...

Environmental priorities in Wisconsin under Walker's 'chamber-of-commerce' rule  have taken a beating, but an interesting stud...

Wisconsin is open for state-enforced poverty: Walker and the GOP legislature have refused to consider an increase in Wisconsin's relati...

[Updated] Haven't seen much mainstream media attention to this northwoods WI story : VIDEO: Day 4 of the campaign to end bear baiting...

Data on the WisDOT website tell the story .  Basically, no improvement in the numbers of deaths and fatal crashes on Wisconsin roads over...

The old railroad barons may have passed on, but their up-yours tradition  to outsiders lives on: Asked for info on bridge conditions, rai...

The Journal Sentinel editorial board gives GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos what just might be an unprecedented drubbing in its Sunday Crossr...

So it's been decided that Wisconsin isn't going to regulate  to ensure water quality for people if the size of a dairy herd is the...

Just saying : Quad/Graphics Inc., which won a major new magazine printing contract this year, plans to create 500 more jobs in Wisconsin...