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There is bipartisan opposition to government leaning on universities and TV networks, according to new data from UW-Madison research center

While many of us are cutting back on groceries, travel, health care and other necessities to pay almost five bucks a gallon for gas, oil companies are raking in mega bucks.

Many small businesses feel like we are being priced out of survival.

This is a blatant breach of our Constitution by the very people who took an oath to defend and honor our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

It’s amazing what Trump thinks he can get away with — and then he does. Why? He goes further than any president ever dreamed to remake the capital in his own image.

Generations of young people today are probably unaware of Jane Fonda’s sordid past.

A federal drug case involving a landlord from Hales Corners exposes a deeper issue: how poor and vulnerable tenants are often forced to live in unsafe and exploitative housing conditions in Milwaukee.

Taxpayers will pay at the pump or some other way until the incompetents elected to office act with better fiscal discipline.

It’s time for Wisconsin to invest more in this convenient, practical, popular alternative. Let’s bring the benefits of modern train service to more people in our state.

California shouldn’t be regulating Wisconsin, and this isn’t particularly controversial. From Arizona to Georgia to Maine, most residents support a Prop 12 fix in the 2026 Farm Bill.

A new poll shows that support for socialism among young Americans is at an all-time high. What could be responsible for this fact?

Regardless of where we’re from or where we now live, we share a great many problems. None bigger than our relationship with technology, the question of whether machines will be our servants or masters, whether tools like AI will end up assisting humanity or commandeering it.

It could be time for more Driftless folks to consider zoning, at least for large businesses like data centers and others that could impact the environment.

Despite reports of a bustling stock market, improving employment conditions and rising wages, many have yet to benefit these positive developments personally. What’s really going on?

Changes introduced by our Wisconsin lawmakers do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers. Still, these changes do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers.

Leftist hatred of tax relief kills lame-duck governor’s deal for school aid and tax cuts.

A grand compromise — there’s that dirty word in politics — was scuttled for the sake of political grandstanding.

Hospitals in Van Orden’s congressional district were projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue under the budget law.

Columbus, Indiana, a city about the size of West Bend, has become a mecca for its collection of 70 buildings designed by world-class architects.

Four members of the Shorewood Hills Village Board voted to remove me as village president. Obviously, my family and I are disappointed. More importantly, this was not right, and the legal standard for removal was not met.

There is bipartisan opposition to government leaning on universities and TV networks, according to new data from UW-Madison research center

While many of us are cutting back on groceries, travel, health care and other necessities to pay almost five bucks a gallon for gas, oil companies are raking in mega bucks.

Many small businesses feel like we are being priced out of survival.

This is a blatant breach of our Constitution by the very people who took an oath to defend and honor our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

It’s amazing what Trump thinks he can get away with — and then he does. Why? He goes further than any president ever dreamed to remake the capital in his own image.

Generations of young people today are probably unaware of Jane Fonda’s sordid past.

A federal drug case involving a landlord from Hales Corners exposes a deeper issue: how poor and vulnerable tenants are often forced to live in unsafe and exploitative housing conditions in Milwaukee.

Taxpayers will pay at the pump or some other way until the incompetents elected to office act with better fiscal discipline.

It’s time for Wisconsin to invest more in this convenient, practical, popular alternative. Let’s bring the benefits of modern train service to more people in our state.

California shouldn’t be regulating Wisconsin, and this isn’t particularly controversial. From Arizona to Georgia to Maine, most residents support a Prop 12 fix in the 2026 Farm Bill.

A new poll shows that support for socialism among young Americans is at an all-time high. What could be responsible for this fact?

Regardless of where we’re from or where we now live, we share a great many problems. None bigger than our relationship with technology, the question of whether machines will be our servants or masters, whether tools like AI will end up assisting humanity or commandeering it.

It could be time for more Driftless folks to consider zoning, at least for large businesses like data centers and others that could impact the environment.

Despite reports of a bustling stock market, improving employment conditions and rising wages, many have yet to benefit these positive developments personally. What’s really going on?

Changes introduced by our Wisconsin lawmakers do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers. Still, these changes do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers.

Leftist hatred of tax relief kills lame-duck governor’s deal for school aid and tax cuts.

A grand compromise — there’s that dirty word in politics — was scuttled for the sake of political grandstanding.

Hospitals in Van Orden’s congressional district were projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue under the budget law.

Columbus, Indiana, a city about the size of West Bend, has become a mecca for its collection of 70 buildings designed by world-class architects.

Four members of the Shorewood Hills Village Board voted to remove me as village president. Obviously, my family and I are disappointed. More importantly, this was not right, and the legal standard for removal was not met.