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.

Amid Orwellian liberalism, a strong democratic leader finally wins in Europe.

Sixty-one percent of the party’s base now favors ending the separation of church and state, as do a growing number of prominent Republicans.

Other states have binding referendums. Evers’ call for it echoes Gov. McGovern 111 years ago.

Gov. Tony Evers’ dysfunctional Department of Safety and Professional Services no longer wants to be bothered with lawmaker emails on behalf of frustrated constituents suffering through long professional license application delays. Instead, the bungling agency has developed a “new tool” requiring lawmakers to become case workers for DSPS.

Under the guise of patriotism, Trump supporters have been encouraged to commit fraud (fake electors), tell lies (there was election fraud), spew hate (the Proud Boys), sew distrust (fake news claims, when the truth is inconvenient) and lack decency (threats and acts of violence) in expressing political differences.