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Somehow, as we head into 2026, we keep stumbling along that road that’s supposed to make America great again.
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Somehow, as we head into 2026, we keep stumbling along that road that’s supposed to make America great again.

This is not about becoming punitive, xenophobic or paranoid. It is about acting like adults. If we want to oppose authoritarianism, we have to stop behaving like a monoculture that mistakes loyalty for virtue and criticism for betrayal.

In contrast to the chaos coming out of the White House week after week, good news keeps popping up in the West Bend community.

Will governor’s last State of the State speech call out Robin Vos?

MISO has just announced the winners of two regional transmission projects being built in Wisconsin. In a turn of events that will surprise few, Wisconsin’s transmission company, ATC, was not selected for either project.

In Wisconsin, agrivoltaics is gaining traction as a solution to balance energy needs with agricultural productivity.

Wisconsin cannot afford a regulatory system that operates on autopilot without meaningful oversight. We must reinforce a system of checks and balances.

This touches all of us. And it won’t go away unless we get to the root of the problem — the unAmerican national security directives, the insane ICE budget, the lack of accountability — what Vice President JD Vance, astoundingly, asserted was “total immunity” for the rogue, masked agents targeting people in a political crackdown that has nothing to do with keeping us safe.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, announced she would file articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary.

Madison politics reporters discuss their perspectives on WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair.”

Wisconsin Republicans want you to believe their policies are the key to solving the very problems those Republican policies created.

Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.

The current president’s regime is so full of lies, violence, corruption, cruelty and incompetence that a spreadsheet is needed to catalog the damage done to the United States and the world.

I’m one of about three Americans who hasn’t rushed to judgement on the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. What I have are a lot of questions and zero faith that this Justice Department and this FBI will provide impartial answers.

The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.

MPS finally steps up remediation

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss property tax increases facing property owners and how Wisconsin legislators could address the issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.

More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.

Somehow, as we head into 2026, we keep stumbling along that road that’s supposed to make America great again.

This is not about becoming punitive, xenophobic or paranoid. It is about acting like adults. If we want to oppose authoritarianism, we have to stop behaving like a monoculture that mistakes loyalty for virtue and criticism for betrayal.

In contrast to the chaos coming out of the White House week after week, good news keeps popping up in the West Bend community.

Will governor’s last State of the State speech call out Robin Vos?

MISO has just announced the winners of two regional transmission projects being built in Wisconsin. In a turn of events that will surprise few, Wisconsin’s transmission company, ATC, was not selected for either project.

In Wisconsin, agrivoltaics is gaining traction as a solution to balance energy needs with agricultural productivity.

Wisconsin cannot afford a regulatory system that operates on autopilot without meaningful oversight. We must reinforce a system of checks and balances.

This touches all of us. And it won’t go away unless we get to the root of the problem — the unAmerican national security directives, the insane ICE budget, the lack of accountability — what Vice President JD Vance, astoundingly, asserted was “total immunity” for the rogue, masked agents targeting people in a political crackdown that has nothing to do with keeping us safe.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, announced she would file articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary.

Madison politics reporters discuss their perspectives on WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair.”

Wisconsin Republicans want you to believe their policies are the key to solving the very problems those Republican policies created.

Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.

The current president’s regime is so full of lies, violence, corruption, cruelty and incompetence that a spreadsheet is needed to catalog the damage done to the United States and the world.

I’m one of about three Americans who hasn’t rushed to judgement on the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. What I have are a lot of questions and zero faith that this Justice Department and this FBI will provide impartial answers.

The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.

MPS finally steps up remediation

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss property tax increases facing property owners and how Wisconsin legislators could address the issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.

More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.