Wisconsin has a proud history of commercial and military shipbuilding. But now we face a new test of our leadership — rebuilding the industry and setting a course for a stronger, more secure future.

These so-called television news channels have been weaponized. All politics, all the time. They do not have audiences. They have converts.

We need urgent and comprehensive reform. Our children deserve better than a system that prioritizes property over pupils. We must hold MPS accountable for its spending and outcomes. We need greater transparency in how funds are allocated and used. We must demand that every dollar is spent with the sole aim of improving student achievement.

This is a plan about process, not about people, not about kids. It may be needed, but it doesn’t scratch the surface of the scandal at DPI and MPS.

We’ve discovered in recent weeks that many of the people we pay to run our schools and prisons are either incompetent or, in some instances, possibly criminal. And it’s a top-to-bottom issue.

Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin says there is insufficeint data to suggest there will be enough ridership to support bus rapid transit, so city leaders have “turned to abusive land use policies” to make it work.

As centrists fall for the fantasy, who will end up living in the flight path?

Policymakers on both sides of the aisle spend a lot of time talking about ways to strengthen rural communities — and rightly so. They must remember that unless our local hospitals are kept secure and strong, our rural communities cannot be secure or strong either. 

It will be seven years ago next month that McCain, suffering from terminal cancer, walked to the front of the Senate floor and dramatically signaled thumbs down to the bill that would have meant the death knell for the ACA.

It was a sad joke when the Supreme Court took up a case from conservatives who wanted to con people into thinking that a proven abortion medication with a decades-long safety record is dangerous.

For now, at least, one party in our two-party system remains fully captured by what was — at the time when “culture war” entered our lexicon — still an emerging trend. The rift has widened, and now threatens to swallow whatever is left of our common civic life.

She hasn’t announced a change of heart on most positions she had as a Democrat.

Why does Biden keep touting this thing when his efforts aren’t even appreciated by the people he’s trying to help?

As Jon Stewart says in his own inimitable way, juries consider all the facts and carefully weigh the evidence but don’t stop there and neither should journalists.

Tony Evers owns this. The governor has been in office five and a half years, so he can’t blame the mess at the Department of Corrections on the previous administration. And he shouldn’t be allowed to get away with blaming it on the Republican Legislature. This is about mismanagement at the top.

With the urgency that climate change is forcing upon us, we must reinstate the Office of the Public Intervenor if we are going to save our beautiful and unique landscape.

There are serious ramifications for local economies, law enforcement and strains on agencies and resources that create a maelstrom of issues when immigrants come to the country without vetting.

Much less money for Wisconsin, more board members from outside state.

The Society of Professional Journalists issues a ‘call to action’ for other reporters to follow suit.