I am encouraged and optimistic about the opportunities ahead of us on the Mississippi River. This river has played a role in commerce throughout history and I believe we are on the precipice of an exciting new era.

The House Speaker vacancy with Israel and Hamas at war spurred outrage. Meantime, Wisconsin priorities like the farm bill languish.

The American tradition of free speech runs up against rage at colleges, but there are signs of hope.

We should be concerned about ensuring that all our schools succeed in giving children a good start in life. We should teach them how to think clearly and thoroughly and how to engage in reasonable discussion, but we shouldn’t worry about whether they agree with our views. We can’t control that anyway.

During my time milking cows and picking oranges in Israel, my friends taught me peace can be an answer to the decades of terrorism and war, that military might is a necessity but not a solution.

Weakness opens the door to evil. President Biden’s weakness over the past two years has invited many of the problems we see in the world today.

Republican chaos may help Democrats some in 2024. But if they want to win, they really need to help themselves.

Voters see no other way to stop a corrupt government betraying the nation.

Steve Vavrus, director of the State Climatology Office, looks back on how Wisconsin’s climate has changed since the 2011 WICCI assessment report.

So what’s a concerned citizen to do? You can make sure that your federal and state legislators know that we expect them to take meaningful action on climate change by helping Wisconsin meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, and by preparing for tomorrow’s climate impacts.

The destruction of the UW System continues unabated, even as the state had a huge surplus, and a Democrat was in the governor’s office. All because of “reduced state support.”

A year ago during the pandemic, Travis and Tamanna Bembenek reassessed their corporate careers and decided to buy Mexico News Daily, that country’s largest English-language digital news outlet.

Edgerton Reporter Editor Diane Everson received the Edgerton Rotary Club’s citizen of the year award, just one of many accolades she’s received during her tenure at the paper to which she’s devoted her life.

Republicans leave Elections Commission unbalanced and board overseeing DNR unable to act.

Trump and Cleta Mitchell are demonizing elections data system Wisconsin joined via 2016 Republican law.

In a dramatic turn of events, Congress passed a last-minute spending bill that averts a government shutdown.

Pardeep Kaleka’s friendship showed me a diverse, peaceful society is possible if we change the story we tell ourselves: We don’t have to be at war with “the other.” Our diversity can help us flourish.

I am an invader. Actually, the son of “invaders.” But with presidential hopefuls Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis having taken aim at the 14th Amendment’s explicit creation of birthright citizenship, it’s clear that “invader” by association is enough to lump me in.

So, Biden’s $6 billion given to the mullahs of Iran paid off – for them. A deal made on Sept. 11 of all dates. Biden has no shame.