Wisconsin’s weak gun laws enable gun traffickers, and other criminals and dangerous individuals to purchase, possess, and use guns in crimes in cities, towns, and neighborhoods outside Wisconsin.

The proposed Marsy’s Law has the understandable goal of codifying victims’ rights in the Wisconsin state constitution, but much of this bill is unworkable and some of it is unconstitutional.

How much longer we can survive really depends on whether or not USDA decides that organic rules need to be followed by everyone — no matter how big their farm is, or what country they farm in.

Unfortunately, only 11 percent of U.S. employees have access to paid family leave through their jobs, which means millions of workers are forced to choose between family health obligations and the income they need to cover basic expenses.

If politics is indeed a war, conservatives have suddenly become the peace-loving flower children of the new generation. Rather than stand and fight against the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump’s corrosive forces, stalwart conservatives are dropping their weapons and high-tailing it from the battlefield.

The GOP tax cuts are not paid for and will add at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt. Worse, all the GOP proposed individual tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) and corporations add up to about $5.5 trillion. The tax cuts will make America a plutocracy.

A class of parents cued into the performance of their local schools would be far more likely to overcome the problem of governance fragmentation than the alternative solution proposed by Ford.