The importance of arts, crafts, and imagination as the world collapses.

Political trends come and go, and there’s always room for disagreement on what’s effective and what is not. However, the long-term record of federal support for research has paid off in dollars and cents as well as human health. It deserves to continue.

I want Wisconsin-based companies to win the bids and build these projects. However, to protect Wisconsin ratepayers, I want to ensure the projects are built at the lowest cost possible.

The legislation strengthens our ability to combat this growing crisis by allowing law enforcement to immediately tow vehicles operated by unlicensed drivers or those charged with reckless driving.

No one could have predicted the immense impact that Act 10 would eventually have on the State of Wisconsin’s financial destiny when the MacIver Institute first proposed the policy back in November 2010.

While the fight might not be coming from national Democrats, Wisconsin voters have a unique opportunity at this moment to send a message to the Trump-Musk administration.

Crawford proved to be a skilled debater who, at more than one point in the face-off, overwhelmed her rival, former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel.

State Superintendent Jill Underly believes in Wisconsin’s tradition of strong public schools and will continue to support public education and improved funding for small towns and cities everywhere.

No one will silence my voice, or outlaw the things in my head that I have learned by studying American history. To outlaw this teaching is an inhumane act in my opinion. I will not be bullied. Bullies are by their very nature, insecure, scared, and weak people.

Without researchers, there is no research, and researchers, you now know, are graduate students. To save science, we must save the grad students.

By contrast to Ponzi schemes, Social Security relies on a real asset: the taxing authority of the US government.

The April 1 election will again decide whether liberals or conservatives have a majority on the high court.

It is embarrassing that a court candidate needs to conduct themself like a typical politician before having a chance to sit as a prestigious member of the bench where they will grapple with finely tuned case law while marshalling their intellect to write decisions that will last till the end of time. Before acting like a professional jurist, they must get down and dirty.

Brad Schimel, in his backhanded, testosterone-filled remarks, reminded us that the fight for equity and respect is far from over.

Subtly and incrementally, a keep-our-heads-down attitude seems to be permeating campus.

Elon Musk is taking a chain saw to government waste, fraud, and corruption. Madison WI, being a government and university town, bleeds sawdust.

State Sen. Chris Kapenga and Rep. Clint Moses are seeking support for legislation that would prohibit Wisconsin’s 700,000 FoodShare recipients from buying Snickers bars and Mountain Dew — an excellent idea that has long been opposed by big spenders and junk food lovers throwing their weight around.

Trump-Musk’s chaos, cruelty and gross incompetence has resulted in a dismantling of the federal government and a concurrent collapse in the stock market.

It was a blustery, grey Saturday afternoon on March 15 as about 40 people wearing togas, carrying signs and waving upside-down American flags gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Madison to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the current administration’s assault on democracy.

For anyone who has had the tough assignment of downsizing a business or an organization, DOGE is a joke.