Happy New Year!  Tomorrow, January 20th, begins a new presidential administration and with it will come many new beginnings.  We cannot plan for or expect government to be “business as usual” because in a strange irony, America elected a businessman, not a politician, to be the leader of the free world.  Like any transition, there will be growing pains.  There will be changes – some more noticeable than others.  And this inauguration, there will be a larger shake-up of the status quo, per the electorate. Additionally, earlier this month, Senators and Representatives were sworn into office for the start of

Inaugural Diary: A quiet arrival By Van Mobley The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Our flight left Milwaukee at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and, after a connector in Charlotte, arrived at Dulles around 11 a.m. Eastern. We got to the DuPont Circle Hotel around noon and they wouldn’t let us in the room until 3 p.m. so we left our luggage with the concierge and went out walking to see what we could find. There wasn’t much stirring and frankly most of the people we saw out on the