The rise and fall of Milwaukee’s parks and fall and rise of New York’s Central Park offer an important lesson.

Local officials in Milwaukee are planning to exploit a loophole in state law that could lead to unlimited property tax increases across four counties in support of Milwaukee County Parks.

If we step in and “save the day,” there will be no consequences for the poor policies which led to the current situation.

What’s needed most is a revival of politics as it should be: people building real power together, engaging with each other in the work of moving policy in a direction they care about and getting what they want for their community.

Got to get voters where they live before they will go your way. Purists lose elections.

While the Biden-McCarthy deal denies food to hungry people, it increases Pentagon spending by tens of billions.

The corporations that produce the wares of war have been among the country’s most notorious grifters practically since the founding of the republic.

Memorial Day has an unfortunate time relation with another major event affecting veterans — the deadlock on raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

Intellectual and viewpoint diversity must be on an equal plane with all other types of diversity our university system promotes.

The problem of undiversified, inequitable and exclusionary policies.

This year, instead of threats and insults, Evers and Republican legislative leaders have actually reached tentative agreements on three major pieces of the 2023-25 state budget.

Will Wisconsin GOP U.S. Reps. Mike Gallagher and Bryan Steil, members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, step-up? They would be saving the nation, including Wisconsin, from total disaster, if Congress does not approve the Biden-McCarthy deal by June 5.

I was proud to help pass the HALT Fentanyl Act through the House.

If state values teachers, give them a raise in next budget.

We do well on Memorial Day to remember that the struggle for liberty and justice was not settled by the break with British colonialism. It extends to this day.

Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood believes a high-speed rail network can do for the country what the Interstate did to the backbone of our transportation system in the 1950s.

What we need above all is the sort of sensible realism women and men who served bring to policy.

Christiane Amanpour has recently become an even brighter journalistic star, and it has nothing to do with her day job as chief foreign correspondent for CNN.

Take time this Memorial Day to remember those fallen soldiers who have made your freedom possible today.