The Political Environment

If you accept the 'logic' of out-state legislators who don't want state transportation funding to help support Milwaukee's...

[Updated from 8:14 p.m. Monday] Water-carriers at the State Capitol for developers are at it again: There is yet another outrageous plan b...

[Updated] Anyone watching t he coordinated weakening of Wisconsin's environmental laws under Scott Walker and his corporatist allies w...

A big majority of Americans want the US to join other nations in a pact to address climate change, data show , and powerful business intere...

GOP 'reforms' working as planned by the Wisconsin Legislature's Urban Hostility Caucus and Gov. Walker, says the author of the ...

[Updated] Not content with freezing the minimum wage at the rock-bottom level of $7.25-per hour, and   mandating drug tests for food stamp...

The Canadian oil pipeline company with a record of spills and violations  - - and which is already on its way to 'winning' permissi...

[Updated, 11/28/15, 12:45 p.m.] As I've been writing and noting , Wisconsin's intentionally dismissive approach to water quality...

Quick, dirty, minimal and cheap. It's new Wisconsin Idea, as  Republican policy-makers have come up with yet another way of  screwing ...

So much news lately about the warming climate  - - no doubt prompted by the upcoming world climate summit beginning in a few days in Paris ...

Back in the day, public buildings were designed to please the eye and last for a hundred years or more. Not so at Hilldale on Madison...

The  only thing that's cooling  is the far-right's embrace of science, The Washington Post reports: This National Oceanic and Atm...

Two sandhill cranes were  illegally shot and killed in a Wisconsin nature preserve . The fine is $303.30 per bird; additional charges could...

The Wolves of Douglas County Wisconsin blog is carrying a new post that argues against lifting the current federal ban on grey wolf huntin...

Are good attorneys... Cullen Weston Pines & Bach (CWPB)   ...this time winning at the federal appellate level  and blocking the Walk...

It's reassuring that the world summit on climate change scheduled to begin at the end of the month in Paris will be held as scheduled -...

The Center for Investigation Reporting continues a run of important stories about the state's troubled waters with yet another piece a...

It was and is a crisis, and taxpayers are enabling it, says this report: Follow the Manure: Factory Farms and the Lake Erie Algal Cris...

We've been both reporting and distributing information about the supply, quality and regulatory issues surrounding groundwater in Wisco...

That sound of water running surrounding the Milwaukee County Board's decision preserving the broken obstruction known as the Estabrook ...