Last week, unbeknownst to the public or the Wisconsin Legislature who came to Milwaukee’s rescue, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson introduced a plan to increase his own pay and that of his political allies on the Common Council by a whopping 15%.

Program provided over half a million tests for students, faculty, staff and the public at UW campuses.

Somewhere along the line, our culture has warmed to snark and spite and conceit and cruelty. It has cooled on charity and service. This puts us in dangerous territory, no doubt.

Ever since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and especially following his 2020 defeat, there are those who have argued that what is transpiring in the United States is analogous in many ways to the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Hamas’ brutality is so clear that it demands condemnation in the clearest, strongest terms. Those who hedge on their condemnation, much less actually find those attacks justified, are just wrong.

The Supreme Court’s orchestrated attack on a direct constitutional power of a co-equal branch of government is why constitutional checks were created.

“If you read Justice Rebecca G. Bradley’s dissent to taking this case, she invokes ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ but it is her dissent in which you do indeed go ‘through the looking glass.'”

We can’t keep running to the edge of a fiscal cliff only to get a 45 day reprieve each budget cycle. Government is supposed to work.

Providing a tax-free retirement and tax relief to our the middle-class is the best way to provide relief from all of the increases in the costs of living that you are managing every day.