The Political Environment

Remember when WI Gov. Scott ("Re-election Desperation") Walker told anyone objecting to his unprecedented giveaway of tax money t...

Tha Arapio pardon. Immigration and deportation illegalities. Trump's emoluments clause violations all over the place. Ivanka's bran...

Here's a Milwaukee historical marker in the downtown worth taking in. The text reads:  Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought f...

While Wisconsin government is working overtime to fill wetlands, bulldoze dunes and lay waste to the environment and the people's water...

Always glad to promote the effort to save critical habitat what several units of government have left on the diminished public land still k...

Not content with stripping out scientists , and  climate change information , and management of water in the public interest from the DNR, ...

Not content with enabling white supremacy and anti-semitism by his murderous Klanish #Charlottesville supporters, Trump finds yet another w...

Glad to see Journal Sentinel outdoors writer Paul A. Smith noting that both the deer and wolf populations are up simultaneously,, which is...

And this Tweet from three hours ago: Governor Walker ‏ Verified account   @GovWalker More Pushing to renegotiate Foxconn d...

[Updated from 8/22/17] Divide-and-conquer Walker is back. Truthfully, he never left. Already running for a third term, Wisconsin's...

[Updated with Cathy Stepp documentation .] It's about the right time as the dangerous, white supremacist-coddling, media-scapegoating, ...

The victim is:

Last month I asked The Wisconsin DNR if it had distributed any of the bottled water it pledged to Kewaunee County residents with manure run...

And, of course, Walker's announcement of an overdue budget deal "in principle"  was shot down by legislators with whom he...

I'd said over the weekend that there were plenty of reasons to slow down the fast-tracked Foxconn plan. And I'd noted Walker and...

I'd said on this blog more than once recently - - and just yesterday - - that GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan was enabling Trump by failin...

Still coddling the fringe - - or is it the heart - - of the WI GOP base? So pathetic that wimps like Paul Ryan and others in the Party ...

Two important things about Thursday's 'open house'-not-a-hearing-meeting on the proposed Kohler golf course at its newly-mappe...

Leading Wisconsin GOP officials keep saying that the Foxconn bill with its precedent-setting billions in taxpayer subsidies and unique waiv...