Inside Wisconsin’s libraries

Helping Wisconsin adopt Medicaid expansion could be Thompson’s crowning legacy.

Stingy numbers for hospitals in the state and county. Should state require more charity care?

If Wisconsin can add to the significant progress apparently about to be made in education reform, enact lower taxes, reduce regulation, and hang on to right-to-work and Act 10, among other things, we will be in a good position — even as a purple state — to continue to gain from our neighbors’ wrong-headed embrace of progressive governance.

Just as June is used to observe Pride Month, it is also the celebration of Juneteenth. Hate and oppression knows no bounds. Pride comes in many forms, races and ethnicities.

Even if Democrats cannot.

DPW Chair Ben Wikler has taken the party’s operation out of the backrooms and into the streets.

Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee voted down the long-anticipated and much-needed new engineering building on the UW Madison campus. Not so long ago that would have been a slam dunk Republican priority.

Some legislators are doubling down on a non-competitive position that “only fiber” will bridge the digital divide in Wisconsin.

What would now best serve our body politic is if Trump’s base would react as the GOP base did in the months following October 20, 1973.

Using a “rhetorical” perspective to analyze events and speeches is instructive and not inherently nor necessarily “political.”

New Glarus’ brewery isn’t so small anymore. Its success story is known nationwide, where it now ranks as the 12th largest craft brewery in the country.

Money and greed were both at play in the firing of CNN chief executive Chris Licht and the PGA’s merger with a golf league financed by the same Saudi royalty implicated in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The bargain struck Thursday between legislative leaders and the governor ensures the financial sustainability of the school choice and charter school programs but also increases the low revenue ceiling for public school districts that are on the bottom of the revenue spectrum.

Wisconsin Republicans haven’t quite got the hang of constructive engagement.

Whether I am an elected official, a candidate, or just the proud product of a union household, I will always stand side-by-side with unions in their fight to keep their jobs at home and stand up to a shortsighted CEO who would abandon a profitable plant and dedicated workforce to pursue a risky outsourcing strategy.

Do Epic’s extensive work restrictions on former employees stymie entrepreneurial growth in Dane County?

“Small-Town Wisconsin” celebrates an estimated 1,500 Wisconsin municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.

Farmers do more than just produce food, fiber and fuel; they act as stewards of our land, conserving soil and enhancing water quality.