As legislators, we need to prioritize cooperative input and let the power of a good idea take root in our Legislature.

Conservative groups who focus on candidate recruitment and training in Wisconsin say they have seen a distinct drop-off in the number of people volunteering to run for municipal and county positions this spring.

I’d like to see family and friends once again discuss issues with each other and tamp down the angry rhetoric.

For a month, politics was the last thing on my mind. But now, in-between exercises recommended by my wonderful physical and occupational therapists, I have time to read the news. Sadly, it seems it’s just as concerning as it was before.

Children go to school to learn to read and do math, not to be taught about sex.

The state’s got a projected $6.6 billion surplus and all Assembly Speaker Robin Vos can think about is even deeper tax cuts for the wealthy. My own view is that we should take a bunch of that money and pour it into kids.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants “significantly more” than half of the state’s projected $6.8 billion budget surplus to go to tax relief in the next biennial budget.

Progressive issues are much more popular than they’ve been given credit for.

Over the past few years, the Republican-controlled state Legislature has not only been stopping key protection efforts by the Stewardship Fund, but doing so in a secretive, underhanded and unaccountable way.

The senator’s switch to “independent” aligns her more completely with the special interests that she has so diligently represented since coming to the chamber.

Citing “1984,” George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarian repression, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has blocked portions of Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E. Act.”

Seventy-three United States’ mayors, including the Wisconsin mayors in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Kenosha, signed a letter this week asking the U.S. Senate to pass a ban on the sale of assault weapons and expand mandated background checks to purchase firearms.

Wisconsin Republicans have never had a state chairman like Brian Schimming. No one has his combination of gregariousness, strategic thinking, issue messaging, organizational skill, bonhomie and speaking ability.

Wisconsin GOP slow about giving student loan tax credit.

Madison is in line to get another grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life. They should turn it down.

Larry Dufek of Dairyland Farms near New Franken has joined with UW-Oshkosh researchers and Agra Energy in a project on the nation’s first biogas refinery that would convert manure and food waste to liquid vehicle fuel. That could include diesel and jet fuel.

This holiday season please get vaccinated and boosted with the updated bivalent shot. This could be the best gift you give those you love and yourself.

Ending the river of revenue that is shared revenue would help the state end the income tax. After all, the income tax is the only reason shared revenue exists.

Flanked by some of the fattest cats in Big Labor, the president last week announced $36 billion in federal taxpayer money will go to bail out the mismanaged Central States Pension Fund. It’s part of some $90 billion marked for multi-employer pension relief crammed inside the mammoth American Rescue Plan Act.