The Political Environment

Trump's hand-picked anti-science and corporately-obeisant EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has ordered the systematic  scrubbing of clima...

Four jail deaths last year, including one by dehydration which has been widely reported and is in front of an inquest jury right now ? ...

Republicans are in charge and running governments from the Wisconsin State Capitol to the White House like businesses and the news ain'...

The first 100 days were a failure if  you thought that Trump was a politician interested in policy and an agenda to be moved through Congre...

[ Updated from 4/15/17] Wisconsin Republicans just can't stop being the Pollution Party. Now right-wing GOP Gov. Scott Walker and hi...

Props to the indefatigable Wisconsin Wolves of Douglas County blog and advocates for the Open Records request that exposed questionable rei...

Good to see that there  are short-term fixes  for most of the Wisconsin dairy farms facing possible shutdown over protectionist trade barri...

Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his 'growth-through-tax cut plan' that had less to do with real pl...

Any number of publications - - from this blog to Scientific American - - have noted the intentional and fine-grained destruction of Wisc...

Walker praises himself for wanting to drug test poor people while loving his taxpayer-paid lakefront mansion, kitchen and patio. (Not sure ...

I've noted it before , so just for the record the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources again in its weekly news highlights serves ...

You could read it that way. Either way, his retaliation by slapping tariffs on Canadian timber exports to the US isn't going to help th...

You were wrong, Bucky, if you thought Walker was hunkered down in Trump-scheduled meeting to save Wisconsin dairy farmers faced with a May ...

In the face of the Walker administration's coordinated and ideological attack on sound science and conservation in Wisconsin - - long a...

Though his numbers have cratered  - -  The latest  Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll  published Monday found that 40 percent of voters h...

WI Republican pols are coming home to their core values, so hold your nose. Under right-wing-one-party-GOP rule, and led by Governor and ...

[Updated thought: Did those seven days coincide with days when Clarke was out on the paid speaking circuit, book tour or campaign trail for...

No doubt you've heard that several dozen modestly-sized Wisconsin dairy farms may have to close and send their herds to the slaughterho...

A keen observation. "You can always do more". I was hoping Walker would reach for something bigger, like, 'If at first yo...

[Updated] May 1, May Day next Monday is in fact a genuine Mayday! for dozens of modestly-sized dairy farmers in Wisconsin and elsewhere w...