Progress was made in 2021 and some of it is profound. Here are just some examples.

With former Wisconsin State Journal publisher Jim Burgess, who died Monday at age 85, the sense of commitment to community journalism started at the top.

The School Meals for All Wisconsin Act, authored by my office with state Rep. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, sets a bold vision and committed future for Wisconsin’s school meals.

The same University of Wisconsin System that has long cried poverty is signing off on double-digit pay raises for its top educrats.

Respecting the voices which have been silenced is not the same as listening to the voices of the communities which want to maintain the racist, homophobic status quo.

Manchin claims his constituents are happy with his abandonment of Build Back Better. Miners and other residents say that just isn’t so.

We have to start talking to each other again. Enough with sending up electronic flares.

A group of big business lobbyists is pushing a radical change to Wisconsin’s tax structure — one that would give huge tax cuts to the wealthy and powerful while shifting the responsibility of paying taxes to people with lower incomes.

Outlandish fees for an overdrawn check — $38, for instance, for being a dollar overdrawn — helped spawn the formation of Barack Obama’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which initially helped tens of thousands of consumers deal with banks, credit card companies and payday loan sharks. The bureau was making progress until the Donald Trump administration happened on the scene.

Republican candidate for governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, says Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm must be held accountable for the low bail that freed the man suspected of mowing down scores of victims in the Waukesha Christmas Parade.

Reflections on the state of journalism in an age of social media and a polarized American public.

O’Donnell tells the story of an American soldier who gave what he could to make the holiday a little merrier for those in need.

With a long tradition of clean elections and high voter turnout, Wisconsin is now the home of continuing, costly and baseless efforts to discredit the November 2020 election.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says he can’t do anything to remove Chisholm unless he receives a complaint from a Milwaukee County taxpayer. And now, as if on cue, Democratic Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul evades accountability and says the voters should decide whether to remove Chisholm if Chisholm runs for reelection.

Why do so many Americans know more about the two people who were shot and killed as part of self-defense during the riots in Kenosha in 2020 than they do about the six innocent people who were mowed down with a red SUV by a career criminal in the Waukesha Christmas Parade?

Estate planning is essential.

For too long Wisconsinites have had to pay too much to get the prescription drugs that we depend on.