If there was a convention rallying cry, it was Don’t Let Wisconsin Become Minnesota.

Van Orden and his team have spent the entire campaign season trying to remind voters who Cooke really is.

Fiscal frugality offers the starkest contrast between “self-proclaimed sewer socialists” versus real ones

Wisconsin’s approach is deliberate. Regulators, utilities, and consumer groups spent months getting this right because the public trust demands it. The data centers coming to Wisconsin will create jobs and expand the tax base. They should be welcome—and customers who were here long before them can be confident that they will not be stuck with an unwelcome bill.

A sign of our crazy times: It wasn’t even noteworthy when we learned during the bruhaha over the firing of Jay Rothman, the president of the Universities of Wisconsin, that the position’s market value is millions of dollars below that of a good college basketball player.

As a sheriff, my oath is to protect life and preserve public safety on our roads. Increasing truck size and weight not only threatens motorists, it imperils every deputy, EMS technician, and firefighter who responds to traffic accidents every day and night.

Brief pause didn’t help, nor does weak market for electric cars; private sector efforts outstrip government

The President of the United States is suing the IRS for billions of dollars, while simultaneously controlling the executive branch agencies responsible for defending and prosecuting the case.

No Wisconsin GOP member of Congress has protested Russian military aid to Iran, which is killing and wounding U.S. troops.

President Trump’s recent firing of all 22 members of the National Science Foundation board ignited the sort of institutional panic one normally associates with medieval villagers spotting a comet.

Instead of one-time rebates and school funding patches, tax and spending reform

Madison politicians vote to hang onto tax money.

Could Republicans be so lucky?

As long as the governor and legislators were raiding the surplus of approximately $2 billion, one might have thought they’d find a little bit of money to save the program that has preserved Wisconsin’s natural areas for public recreation, parks, hunting and conservation purposes for the last 37 years.

Years from now, I suspect the Blank and Mnookin years will be remembered in the annals of UW history as a turbulent era in which two strong women protected and, in measurable ways, improved the university.

A new study released last week concluded that cell phone bans in schools have been largely ineffective at increasing test scores, improving attention in the classroom, or reducing online bullying