The Department of Public Instruction on Thursday morning quietly released the latest statewide test scores. The results are pretty grim, according to a review by the Institute for Reforming Government — hence the quiet release.

Why would a government, such as Wisconsin’s state government, go on requiring, by law, higher prices even though there is a broad bipartisan consensus that it should stop? And shelves of research showing it to be pernicious?

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and his aide sought advice from a Democratic Party operative on how to explain a citywide get-out-the-vote campaign that critics have called Zuckerbucks 2.0, according to texts and emails obtained by Empower Wisconsin.

When faced with an intransigent legislative majority, the people must have a voice. As Governor Evers likes to quote, “The will of the people is the law of the land.”

Wisconsin politicians are scrambling to catch up to the massive change in public opinion on the issue of abortion.

We need glue guys. Institutions that do the little things, the dirty work, sacrificing for the good of civil society, holding communities together, making them greater than the sum of their parts.

The slippery downhill slide to autocratic goals via menacing political maneuvers from governments worldwide is a concern that more people simply must take stock of and push back against.

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.