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Assembly Republicans have announced a push to pass legislation that would regulate data centers, including an effort to shield other ratepayers from the coming expense to power the facilities. GOP Rep. Mark Born at a Beaver Dam press conference yesterday
The Dem governor, in his last year of office, called on lawmakers to approve the $1.3 billion in property tax relief he included in the 2025-27 budget that Republicans rejected. Still, he told reporters he was open to any approach that would help homeowners.
Madison politics reporters discuss their perspectives on WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair.”
Wisconsin Republicans want you to believe their policies are the key to solving the very problems those Republican policies created.
Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.
The current president’s regime is so full of lies, violence, corruption, cruelty and incompetence that a spreadsheet is needed to catalog the damage done to the United States and the world.
I’m one of about three Americans who hasn’t rushed to judgement on the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. What I have are a lot of questions and zero faith that this Justice Department and this FBI will provide impartial answers.
The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.
MPS finally steps up remediation
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.
Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.
More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.
Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.
The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week offered yet another example — as if we needed more — of the continued attacks on American democracy, on the truth, on common decency, embodied by one of the most despicable men to ever hold power in America.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump’s followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.
The threat to American democracy should be more than enough to mobilize every Democratic voter in the country. Every independent voter. Every Republican voter who grasps the necessity and urgency of our time.
A leader and an inspiration to the next generation
My plan targets the outdated assumption that all of state government must be physically concentrated in one of the most expensive regions in the Midwest.
Sorting through the big picture of the year ahead, and analyzing why 2026 could be the year where Democrats win a trifecta for the first time in a long time.
Assembly Republicans have announced a push to pass legislation that would regulate data centers, including an effort to shield other ratepayers from the coming expense to power the facilities. GOP Rep. Mark Born at a Beaver Dam press conference yesterday said that AB 840, introduced Friday, will get a hearing
The Dem governor, in his last year of office, called on lawmakers to approve the $1.3 billion in property tax relief he included in the 2025-27 budget that Republicans rejected. Still, he told reporters he was open to any approach that would help homeowners.
Madison politics reporters discuss their perspectives on WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair.”
Wisconsin Republicans want you to believe their policies are the key to solving the very problems those Republican policies created.
Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.
The current president’s regime is so full of lies, violence, corruption, cruelty and incompetence that a spreadsheet is needed to catalog the damage done to the United States and the world.
I’m one of about three Americans who hasn’t rushed to judgement on the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. What I have are a lot of questions and zero faith that this Justice Department and this FBI will provide impartial answers.
The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.
MPS finally steps up remediation
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.
Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.
More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.
Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.
The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week offered yet another example — as if we needed more — of the continued attacks on American democracy, on the truth, on common decency, embodied by one of the most despicable men to ever hold power in America.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump’s followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.
The threat to American democracy should be more than enough to mobilize every Democratic voter in the country. Every independent voter. Every Republican voter who grasps the necessity and urgency of our time.
A leader and an inspiration to the next generation
My plan targets the outdated assumption that all of state government must be physically concentrated in one of the most expensive regions in the Midwest.
Sorting through the big picture of the year ahead, and analyzing why 2026 could be the year where Democrats win a trifecta for the first time in a long time.