After the nation’s intense focus on Derek Chauvin’s conviction, it’s clear that racial topics will dominate elections and influence all public policy.

Pandexit is a word for all of this. The messy, hard, exciting, confusing, unfair, hopeful, maddening, joyous end stage of the pandemic.

Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal calling for the creation of a public option plan — allowing people to buy into the state’s Medicaid program — could be devastating to cash-strapped rural hospitals, many already “just holding on.”

Wisconsin state Sen. Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, pointed out years ago that the Legislature’s exemption from the state’s open records retention law is an invitation to corruption.

Green Bay City Attorney Vanessa Chavez set out to write a report clearing Mayor Eric Genrich of any blame in the mishandling of November’s election. She accidentally proved that Green Bay conducted an unlawful election.

Much needs to drastically change all over the Midwest, and the upcoming trial for the Milwaukee police officer who killed Joel Acevedo is going to be an important moment for police accountability.

ICE does have a legitimate role in keeping our communities and our nation safe — including from narcotics and human trafficking — but not at the expense of the trust local departments have built over time with their communities, and not by burdening them with extra duties and costs that divert from their mission.

To the end of his life, Mondale waged the battle against segregation he had joined as the sponsor of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

In early 2020, I quit my job and booked a one-way ticket to India with a goal of improving my yoga and meditation practice — a simple goal that evolved into an odyssey-like exploration of freedom and fear during COVID-19.