Communities across Wisconsin – urban, suburban, and even rural – are struggling to address our state’s evolving homelessness crisis. In response, we authored SB 669/AB 689. The Wisconsin State Assembly recently passed AB 689, which expands the tools available to local communities to better help our vulnerable neighbors who sleep on the streets each night.

Economic circumstances do not determine one’s ability to be a nurturing parent; poverty, though, can overload caregivers and families with stress and create conditions by which neglect is more likely to occur and be observed and reported.

In addition to appropriating no money, the bill limits the ability of the state to hold responsible parties accountable for cleaning up PFAS contamination.

Advance in Legislature permits direct primary care to complement insurance.

Who will pay for Trump’s costly lack of discipline?

Across the state, public school districts will again get on their knees and beg taxpayers for operational funds in April referendums.

School districts across Wisconsin are once again looking for scapegoats as to why they’re supposedly broke and need taxpayers to bail them out. There are 421 school districts in Wisconsin, and 91 of them are going to referendum this spring.

Polls suggest Tammy Baldwin is beatable. But Hovde seems to be floundering for a way to do it.

If legislative candidates, either incumbents or challengers, face elections that are competitive for the two parties, they will have a much harder time winning if they take extreme positions on the far right and the far left. Centrists will be more likely to carry the day in the ballot boxes in the newly competitive districts.

I can and will vote for a school board member or a county treasurer or a governor or the president for hopefully the right reasons, and hopefully not for a singular issue or the D or R behind their name.

Instead of dismantling DEI, we should embrace its potential to create a more just and equitable society where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. By fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion, we can build stronger and more vibrant communities for all.

To safeguard a brighter future for our kids and grandkids, change at a societal level is necessary, and that begins with you and me.

For the first time since 2011, we will have maps that are consistent with the text, design and structure of our state constitution and its creation of a republican form of government based on the principle of majority rule.

For Democrats, who have been outnumbered 64-35 in the Assembly and 22-10 in the Senate, the new maps present a huge opportunity.

‘Fair maps’ result in open seats for state Legislature.

This trailblazing woman who won two statewide elections for lieutenant governor, selflessly served for decades on countless committees and councils dealing with everything from education to the arts, and who has been a leading voice for women’s rights, was declared by Republican senators last week as not fit to serve on the UW Hospitals and Clinic Authority Board.

The state Senate fired former Department of Natural Resources Deputy Secretary Todd Ambs from the state’s Natural Resources Board.

Danger of government interference in proposals for ‘fellowships’ and grants to media

It’s time for retiring Mike Gallagher, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and supporter of Ukraine, to sign a discharge petition to force a vote on aid for Ukraine. He has nothing to lose. It would be a profile in integrity and assure Gallagher’s mark on history. Semper Fidelis.

The most amusing story to watch was the artful messaging by pro-choice advocates and the speed of conservatives who dashed to the nearest microphone to register their support for IVF.