Proponents say government would be more efficient, less partisan.

The college and student loan system is terribly broken and has led far too many people into borrowing more money than they can easily afford to buy degrees of marginal value. Honor, respect, and dignity demand that the borrowers pay it back as promised.

According to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, among African Americans, thirteen percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, forty percent of engineers, fifty percent of professors employed at predominantly white institutions, fifty percent of attorneys, and eighty percent of judges are graduates of HBCUs.

It’s a close call, but on balance House Democrats are better off voting to keep Kevin McCarthy as Speaker than joining the hard-right Republicans to oust him.

Matt Gaetz and his fellow conservative travelers who are always angry and gnashing their teeth are almost surely about to overreach this week, letting anger advance far more than their abilities or actual power to effect change.

As with victims of gun violence, the Republicans are offering thoughts and prayers for climate change victims but no meaningful action.

AFL-CIO staff haven’t received a raise in nine years. Our lack of competitive pay fails to attract new talent while causing the departure of irreplaceable expertise.

Over the last year, the Wisconsin Hospital Association has worked with Wisconsin hospitals and health systems to implement robust quality improvement and patient safety efforts — not necessarily to impact ratings, but to better serve patients.

Local farms and businesses are extending their reach by creating experiences that draw people from all walks of life to taste, touch and learn right on the farm. And the focus for many of these experiences is in the fall when our farms are bursting with colors, flavors and activity.

A terrible week for House Republicans, almost shutting down the government, abandoning Ukraine, theatrically launching an impeachment “inquiry” with no basis against President Biden. Democrats aren’t perfect, but it’s time to throw the GOP bums out.

We admire McCarthy for refusing to cave to the small minority that is the so-called “Freedom Caucus.” One of his supporters, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb) gave the money quote: “We’re tired of f–king around with these whack jobs.”

Whether it’s working to avoid a government shutdown or opposing dangerous policies that slash benefits for constituents like me, we need Congressman Van Orden to do the right thing.

If the Legislature is serious about public-informed, transparent, redistricting map selection, why not reopen its portal for a month and invite anyone to submit an Assembly map? This time, however, the Legislature needs to actually look at what is submitted.

Nearly every voter in next year’s presidential election will be casting votes either on paper or on an electronic machine that has a paper backup. And almost all of those ballots will be counted by a machine. This approach balances security, accuracy, speed and voter confidence — and still allows for selected hand counts after Election Day.

While Republicans want to force both the city and county of Milwaukee to help pay for stadium renovations, they wouldn’t necessarily have a seat on a new stadium board.

In 2010, the legislature put politics aside and passed a bipartisan shield law to protect journalists from revealing their sources. It should do so again to protect media outlets from being sued into oblivion — no matter who is doing the suing.

It is going to be hard to stay current on my list of reasons to vote for or against President Joe Biden and former president Trump in the 2024 presidential elections.

While some Republicans attempted to suggest that there was a point to their impeachment inquiry of Biden, Grothman in his opening statement simply admitted, “We have all kinds of smoke, maybe no fire.”

Once again, poor kids in America are struggling. We’ve rejoined the outliers among our peer nations.