The Political Environment

When you read these heart-breaking stories about Wisconsin's disappearing dairy farms and some owners' suicides , you have to rem...

I take it as sign of progress that the generally-conservative Wisconsin Realtors Association now wants nothing to do with Brian Hagedorn...

Good to see that Gov. Tony Evers is still putting his teaching credentials to good use by vetoing the Republicans devious, damaging and d...

You might be interested in this discussion of an issue with multiple ramifications  - - who owns the parking lot and who pays to park there...

The US Supreme Court declined to restrict the public's traditional access to beaches along the Great Lakes. The public's right t...

Big spending WI Republicans have again identified their favorite beneficiaries. Themselves. And their lawyers. After years of institu...

While Walker uses Twitter to showcase his travels and burgers runs, the decay he left behind hurts state residents, public budgets and the ...

Foxconn's dubious future  is not the only negative runoff from its budget-straining-sprawl-inducing intrusion into rural Racine County...

I wrote a series years ago for The Milwaukee Journal about dangers posed by alcohol abuse beyond the more-widely known OWI-related tragedie...

Trump is probably the only person in DC or the political world who doesn't understand that he's the one responsible for the garbage...

Perhaps an outbreak of Foxconn Fever got nipped on the bud out East. New York today said no  - -  In the End, Amazon Didn’t Win Its Ow...

If you thought the days of Wisconsin's right-wing GOP reflex to insensitive insularity had ended when the dog-whistling Scott Walker w...

Remember last summer's rains around here? I do, and took this picture of the Milwaukee River rushing past Estabrook Park after heavy ...

Poor Scott Walker, already reduced to tweeting photos of burger runs - -  More - -  @ScottWalker  Jan. 31: 4 hours ago Jan. 31 W...