Christmas is about doing what’s right, Charlie Brown. And it’s about what it does to us.

Wisconsin is one of only seven states that prohibit clerks from processing absentee ballots before Election Day.

The state Legislature has abandoned Wisconsin’s long-standing commitment to funding two-thirds of public education, shifting more of the cost onto local property taxpayers.

What Evers announced was the funneling of taxpayer dollars to left-wing ideological organizations, many of them explicitly political, to spread progressive fervor among the youth.

While Republican lawmakers like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia expressed their disgust, there was not a peep from Wisconsin’s six Republican members of the House, or U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell and colleagues must weigh a myriad of conflicting information.

Democrats have finally noticed that prices are way too high…just in time for them to blame them on President Trump ahead of the midterm elections.

An Associated Press story from the other day caught my eye. It was about a controversy stemming from a new policy limiting how much a student can borrow under federally supported student loan programs.

The deer hunt may represent bloodthirsty slaughter for some, but those who grew up hunting know a moment like this is a chance to teach deep life lessons.

In my first year as State Senator, I’ve learned so much about District 14 and the people living within it. While these have been really tumultuous times, they have also revealed so much goodness, and that deserves highlighting at the end of 2025.

The court must set aside any discomfort about judging a former colleague and revoke Gableman’s law license.

“Another lane will fix it” still reigns at WisDOT, but the public is pushing back.

Next time, pick a villain who is unlikeable.

One of the biggest political stories of 2025 has been the push for mid-decade gerrymandering of state’s congressional maps.

For us in the building trades, data centers aren’t some big, scary mystery. They’re high-skill, long-term work. The kind of work that feeds families, pays mortgages, and sends kids to college.

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“A bunch of old hippies.” That was the derisive term used by some to describe 2025’s massive protests of Trump administration policies.

In the fall of 2020, as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden were locked in a high-stakes competition for the presidency, Wisconsin ranked as the ultimate battleground state.

Our governor made sure it won’t be a possibility coming our way any time soon, vetoing a bill to exempt new cigar bars from the state’s public smoking ban.