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If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
Both sides of the aisle in this governor’s race chose their ideological corners over the people they want to lead.
The presumptive GOP nominee in the race for governor is an election denier, and seeking to overturn the results of a free and fair election is extreme in a way that goes beyond policy disagreements.
Transmission development should never be about a race to the bottom. Transmission is long-lived, critical infrastructure, and the hard part isn’t submitting low-cost bids. It’s delivering projects on time and maintaining a regulatory structure that holds people accountable for decades after the press releases stop.
Open classrooms can connect all the parents, students and teachers as one family.
State schools superintendent reverses course and says DPI lacks authority to support the Milwaukee Reading Coalition at all. That directly contradicts the guidance provided in previous year.
For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley Forge like a Norman Rockwell recreation — the silence today is deafening. And it is very sad as we prepare to observe the semiquincentennial.
Screens are unavoidable, and can be used for good, but only if we change our doom-spiral routine.
One of the most important lessons from the last several decades of criminal justice policy is surprisingly simple: communities are safest when laws are enforced consistently and wrongdoing is addressed before it escalates.
Modern ALPR systems, when implemented responsibly with strong policies and oversight, can significantly enhance safety while protecting the constitutional rights of citizens.
I don’t know if Ted Oswald will get his commutation but it’s a sure bet a lot of crooks will. Evers wouldn’t have given himself the power to commute if he didn’t intend to use it.
Tax refunds may feel good for a moment, but big ideas and statewide investments pay dividends for generations.
The divide between Wisconsin’s flood crisis and its climate policy is the product of a legislative choice to treat climate change as someone else’s emergency.
Inflation, tariffs, and healthcare costs have all taken a big bite out of farm families’ income as Trump becomes the latest major figure trying to save Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
Donald Trump’s war on Iran has pushed them out of the headlines, but don’t think for a moment that those masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aren’t hard at work harassing neighborhoods, small businesses and even a few farmers.
West Bend native Laura Hillman Mitchell played a star witness role in Congress recently as she pitched the use of technology to keep seniors living longer in their homes.
Pundits and political insiders may bemoan the fact that so much energy is going into the Democratic race to replace outgoing Gov. Tony Evers. But I disagree. History suggests that primaries are good for the parties that allow them to play out.
Over the past year, tens of thousands of Wisconsinites have lost FoodShare after Rep. Tom Tiffany voted for two bills that pushed for and locked in SNAP cuts.
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
Both sides of the aisle in this governor’s race chose their ideological corners over the people they want to lead.
The presumptive GOP nominee in the race for governor is an election denier, and seeking to overturn the results of a free and fair election is extreme in a way that goes beyond policy disagreements.
Transmission development should never be about a race to the bottom. Transmission is long-lived, critical infrastructure, and the hard part isn’t submitting low-cost bids. It’s delivering projects on time and maintaining a regulatory structure that holds people accountable for decades after the press releases stop.
Open classrooms can connect all the parents, students and teachers as one family.
State schools superintendent reverses course and says DPI lacks authority to support the Milwaukee Reading Coalition at all. That directly contradicts the guidance provided in previous year.
For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley Forge like a Norman Rockwell recreation — the silence today is deafening. And it is very sad as we prepare to observe the semiquincentennial.
Screens are unavoidable, and can be used for good, but only if we change our doom-spiral routine.
One of the most important lessons from the last several decades of criminal justice policy is surprisingly simple: communities are safest when laws are enforced consistently and wrongdoing is addressed before it escalates.
Modern ALPR systems, when implemented responsibly with strong policies and oversight, can significantly enhance safety while protecting the constitutional rights of citizens.
I don’t know if Ted Oswald will get his commutation but it’s a sure bet a lot of crooks will. Evers wouldn’t have given himself the power to commute if he didn’t intend to use it.
Tax refunds may feel good for a moment, but big ideas and statewide investments pay dividends for generations.
The divide between Wisconsin’s flood crisis and its climate policy is the product of a legislative choice to treat climate change as someone else’s emergency.
Inflation, tariffs, and healthcare costs have all taken a big bite out of farm families’ income as Trump becomes the latest major figure trying to save Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.
Donald Trump’s war on Iran has pushed them out of the headlines, but don’t think for a moment that those masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aren’t hard at work harassing neighborhoods, small businesses and even a few farmers.
West Bend native Laura Hillman Mitchell played a star witness role in Congress recently as she pitched the use of technology to keep seniors living longer in their homes.
Pundits and political insiders may bemoan the fact that so much energy is going into the Democratic race to replace outgoing Gov. Tony Evers. But I disagree. History suggests that primaries are good for the parties that allow them to play out.
Over the past year, tens of thousands of Wisconsinites have lost FoodShare after Rep. Tom Tiffany voted for two bills that pushed for and locked in SNAP cuts.
