Columnist Bill Barth provides a tongue-in-cheek outline of Forecasters Anonymous’ predictions for the coming year.

I suggest that Wisconsin Democrats artfully and relentlessly define who today’s state Republicans actually are. It’s not your father’s or grandfather’s serious and austere GOP.

Voters must reject a dangerous demagogue such as Van Orden to represent the 3rd CD.

GOP leadership needs to support Nass’s fight against the administrative state.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has no standing to cast stones at others, not with his shabby record of wasting taxpayer dollars.

Assembly Democrats took an even harder turn left late last month, selecting Wisconsin’s version of AOC to serve as the leader of their small caucus.

As we prepare to embark on 2022, I hope we all look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and examine ourselves and the policies we uphold and support.

We should begin each new year with a faith in its possibility. That’s especially necessary in the year that is just now beginning.

Good riddance to 2021, a year when the bad news far exceeded the good. A saving positive, however, to end the year came unexpectedly in the form of a sharply lower tax picture for Wisconsin taxpayers.

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.