Wisconsinites of all political bents, stripes and backgrounds have a stake in the integrity and legitimacy of those who oversee our natural resource policies and administration.

Supreme Court extremists just overruled EPA regulations of greenhouse emissions, a regulatory discipline in which they have no expertise, experience or standing.

Nothing is out of bounds. Poised to hear cases on affirmative action in higher education and whether business owners can discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, SCOTUS is charting new territory. They are blazing a path and dumping established law along the way.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has rolled back a woman’s right to choose whether to have an abortion, the power of the state reaches right through us, deciding what happens inside our bodies.

75% of America’s 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible due to lack of education, obesity, or criminality.

There is a growing housing crisis affecting our families, and the runaway inflation we are living through is deepening that crisis. Without help, too many parents, children, and seniors will become homeless.

What has gone largely unnoticed as the House hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection continue is the revelation of how Donald Trump and his entourage have fleeced their own loyal supporters out of roughly $250 million.

“This will not pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future” takes the reader from the last months of Donald Trump’s presidency through Joe Biden’s first year.

As motorists continue to confront record-high gas prices, front-runners — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, and Wisconsin State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — support suspending the federal gas tax.

Barnes had the temerity to tell an audience in Portage last August, “Imagine being so ashamed of how we got to this place in America that you outlaw teaching it.”

Many of us are in despair right now over the direction of our country.

Assault-style weapons simply aren’t used often enough for banning them to have any real impact on gun murders. When they were banned, the number of mass shootings in America went up and, somewhat paradoxically, became deadlier.

Where does that leave Milwaukee?

We are all harmed when basic fairness, decency, and commitment to the public interest become victims, once again, to unchecked political power. The decision contributes to the further breakdown of our system of representative government.

We must teach our children how to treat people and how to transcend prejudice and bias and embrace fairness and civility.

Evidence of declining interest in summer jobs deserves parental response.

The state Supreme Court’s fake nonpartisan pretense will be fully revealed in the spring.

The U.S. Supreme Court is stripping back the power of government and returning it to the people.

In a crowded Democratic field, Nelson stood out to me because of his consistency in pushing for progressive policies.