Direct democracy is the surest route to tyranny, the latest attempt by the left to subvert representative democracy. Evers’s ballot initiative proposal would erode stability, squash deliberation, crumble our system of checks and balances, and elevate radical formulations of policy into special-interest impulse-driven elections.

Last month, as most readers are aware, a school shooting occurred right here in Madison. This resulted in a horrifying murder of a student and teacher, physical harm to others, and countless mental health challenges rippling throughout the community.

To serve my new district, I am excited to be appointed again as the ranking member of the Committee on Children and Families and the Committee on Tourism. I will also serve in a new role on the Committee on Agriculture.

I’m an anti-Trump fiscal conservative — and I’d love to see anyone in MAGA world actually cut spending.

Allowing in more immigrants, skilled and unskilled, would not just create jobs. It could increase tax revenue, help finance Social Security, bring new home buyers, and improve the business environment. Every business sector in every state needs workers!

The late president celebrated the impact and influence of the song, which decries war, nationalism, and the excesses of capitalism.

We need measurable goals to make Milwaukee and Wisconsin better this year.

Overshadowed by the Trump trauma was the fact that Wisconsin Democrats gained 10 seats in the state Assembly and four in the state Senate.

President-elect Donald Trump and his team are putting on a master class during the transition. The rollout of the Cabinet was well done. His team is filling political appointee positions.

Trump’s obsession with claiming Greenland and its people for the US is just a new version of the same old imperialist story.

The bitter and caustic politics that have smeared the nation since 2016 make much of what we heard in the national funeral seem ancient. That is truly sad.

Observers of initiative process in California, Michigan point out problems with process embraced by Evers.

If you don’t have children or are a parent with older children, you probably don’t realize how expensive childcare has become in Wisconsin.

Low-income workers in 21 states got a pay raise on New Year’s Day last week, but those who live in Wisconsin weren’t among them.

Leading issues in the Wisconsin conservation community for 2025 include potential license fee increases and legislation on wake-enhanced boating.

Giving the people legislative power is antithetical to America’s founding principles. The U.S. Constitution’s framers despised this sort of direct democracy, as they feared that it would empower a “tyranny of the majority.”

Resistance will look different in 2024 than in 2016. After 2016, there were so many people looking to get involved and start organizing, some for the first time in their lives. But this time feels different. People are exhausted.

Lower nicotine levels leads to more people quitting smoking, which leads to massive health benefits and lower federal spending.

Has the crime rate gone up or down in Milwaukee and nationally?

Despite vast wealth it closed pediatric clinic on 29th and Clark.