It’s an understatement to say that public school advocates are not happy with the state budget Gov. Tony Evers signed.

Borrowers will have access to temporary flexibilities to successfully reenter repayment, a new income-driven repayment plan that promises more affordable payments, and multiple pathways for loan forgiveness.

It is exciting to see the improvements in our state parks. We are making good progress, but there is more work to be done.

Lincoln would have been proud of constitutional Republicans and appalled by GOP insurrectionists.

Even if he legitimately loses, Trump is never going to concede defeat in the GOP primary. The national political media hasn’t adjusted to a post-Jan. 6 paradigm.

The married couple of Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn are considered two of the most influential people in President Joe Biden’s sphere. They’ll appear together Sept. 23 at Cap Times Idea Fest in Madison.

Would it not have been smarter to use his political thick skin to ward off attacks for trying to move the GOP forward, rather than just taking incoming flack for being just a shade off from Trump?

I’ve been an unapologetic defender of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Maybe not much longer.

In our book commemorating the 100th anniversary of The Capital Times, John Nichols and I devote several pages to our founder William T. Evjue’s fight against the Ku Klux Klan.

Either out of ignorance or just plain obstinance, Wisconsin’s legislative Republicans apparently would rather put school-aged kids to work than help parents take jobs to help alleviate the state’s labor shortage.

The new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court fired the state court system director and established a committee that assumes the constitutional duties of the chief justice. Justice Rebecca Bradley says these changes violate the state constitution, politicize the court, and undermine the public’s trust in the state’s justice system.

The four liberal justices’ actions this week reek of raw abuse of power, and undermine the confidence of the people of Wisconsin in our high court.

Business, government and higher education itself must be a part of forging a long-term solution. It may include downsizing but it need not mean sacrificing quality. Less is sometimes more.

With the governor’s vetoes, the state will still be sitting on over $4 billion dollars that should be returned to the taxpayers of Wisconsin because the government took in more money than it needed.

To hear Chief Justice Annette Ziegler and her right-wing allies describe it, you would think the new progressive majority on Wisconsin’s highest court was destroying a collegial institution, running roughshod over the integrity of the Court and threatening the very rule of law itself.

But is it a crime — or a legal stratagem?

Embracing the clean energy transition that’s already underway will help our state add more good-paying jobs and save Wisconsinites money on their energy bills — all while helping us avoid the worst of the climate crisis scenarios.

A report released this week demonstrates that constituents in ten states where Republican members of Congress have fought against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have received hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of shady operators and actions in the financial industry.

Is it revenge for conservatives’ past overthrow of Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson?

With Janet Protasiewicz now joining three other Justices to comprise a fair-minded majority, they will “return this court to the national reputation it once enjoyed.”