Schools do need to be wary of legal risks, but it can be easy to put too much focus on the risk of transgender students seeking special accommodations.

Last week Fitzgerald issued a press release announcing that he has joined ranks with other House Republicans to damage the 12-year-old Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.

Along with a bipartisan group of House members that includes some of the chamber’s most progressive and most conservative members, Pocan on Thursday introduced the Audit the Pentagon Act, a proposal to require transparency and accountability in a Department of Defense budget that is growing so rapidly that it will soon pass the $1 trillion-a-year mark.

His name does not adorn any building in town, but for half a century Gordon Derzon’s impact on this city has been historic.

Simply put, it’s not a matter of “if” marijuana” will be legalized in Wisconsin but “when.” It’s time we do this in a manner that honors Wisconsin businesses, rights the past wrongs in our criminal justice system, and brings revenue back into our state that is currently flooding across our borders to neighboring states.

I hope this isn’t a back door into funding the Brewers’ stadium costs, but even if it is the good it will do for every local government in the state and the fact that it was negotiated on a bipartisan basis are reasons to cheer.

With discussions happening about how to keep the lights on in Milwaukee, this is the wrong time to be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars for a Brewers stadium deal.

The debate in America is no longer about left or right. It is fundamentally about right or wrong. Freedom of speech. Love of country. Belief in God.

As we address gun deaths, we must also recognize the death that occurs due to the failure to support and pass public policies that address healthcare, living wages and voter suppression.