Will proposed venues bring more concerts to town or crush its current concert promoters?

Republicans are very likely to win a supermajority in the State Senate. But a handful of key races could really change things.

WMC and its partners in the “Coalition for Educational Freedom” are lining up behind Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels to open up so-called school choice — that is, taxpayer-financed vouchers — to the entire state. Too bad WMC doesn’t want to be among those who will pay the bills.

The message is both clear and overdue: Inaction is not an option.

As Wisconsinites face price spikes not seen since the early 1980s, Gov. Tony Evers’ agency heads are asking for a combined $7.5 billion in increased taxpayer money, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Reforming Government.

What will it take to bring people together again?

Last week, after reviewing the case for more than seven months, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanee charged [DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation agent] Mark Wagner with second degree recklessly endangering safety through the use of a dangerous weapon. If convicted, Mark faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Over the past two years, Wisconsin has faced an unrelenting assault on our freedom to vote from Republican legislators, Michael Gableman, and our reactionary Wisconsin Supreme Court.

In what was an inevitable move, Pres. Joe Biden’s plan to unilaterally cancel up to $20,000 in student debt, costing taxpayers around a half-trillion dollars overall, is being challenged in federal court.

Japan was Wisconsin’s seventh-largest trading partner in 2021 at nearly $700 million, more than one-third of China’s $1.8 billion total for the same year. That was true even though Japan’s population is less than 10% of China’s 1.4 billion people.

Brazil’s “Tropical Trump” says “only God will remove me” if he loses Sunday.

Election results going back three decades show an almost perfectly divided state.

It’s not just license applications and renewals that Gov. Tony Evers’ incompetent Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) is failing to process in a timely manner. Professionals who must complete mandatory continuing education in their fields are having a difficult time making it through the bureaucratic maze of unreturned phone messages and emails, too.

Vos would well serve our state by being forthcoming to the Jan. 6th Committee about his stated desire of securing the public faith in our elections….while at the same time giving a boost to our overall democracy.

Gov. Tony Evers and six other governors have announced plans to form the Midwestern Hydrogen Coalition, creating a framework for expanding “clean hydrogen” production in the region.

There’s no better example of intractable sides stubbornly ignoring an obvious solution than the Line 5 debate in northern Wisconsin.

The welfare fraud case, and the Jackson water crisis are just the latest examples of how Mississippi does not care much about its Black citizens. Shame to the media that refuses to give more of attention to Brett Favre and his role in this ugly scandal.

It’s being offered for free to the county. But will it junk up the lakefront?

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

If you haven’t yet seen the latest Ken
Burns documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” find the time. It’s powerful, poignant, haunting
and urgently relevant to the present moment.