State and federal laws requiring advance notice and imposing certain rules on these discharges have been allowed to atrophy into irrelevance, because they are so seldom enforced. And even when they are, the penalties are so nominal that some providers are willing to accept them as a cost of doing business.

We need Apprenticeship Specialists who can serve as success coaches offering life coaching skills, support services, or additional training—whatever supports are needed to make it across the finish line.

Someone needs to check the ventilation system at the state Capitol, because whatever is in the air there is obviously driving the Republican legislators looney.

The legislation would change the way electric transmission lines are built and operated in the state, eliminating competition and driving up costs for consumers to benefit a few established monopolies.

The former president’s promise to pardon January 6 insurrectionists recalls the fascist’s strongman tactics.

Shirley Chisholm began her groundbreaking presidential campaign 50 years ago, with a late January announcement of candidacy and early February forays into states that had never before seen the name of a Black woman on the ballot for a statewide office — let alone the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

In joining the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s three liberals once more, “swing vote” Justice Brian Hagedorn agreed that absentee ballot boxes may be used through the Feb. 15 primary elections — even if they are a violation of state election law.

An introduction to the historical devaluation of Black people.

His push to give tax rebate to taxpayers was first used by Lee Dreyfus to win office.

Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson keeps insisting that he’s never lied about anything, but there he was again last week holding another forum designed to spread disinformation about COVID vaccines.

The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead and Scott Manley of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce join Badger Institute President Mike Nichols to discuss the challenges posed by Wisconsin’s tax structure as well as reforms – income tax elimination, flat tax adoption, bracket consolidation – that would benefit Wisconsin residents, grow the economy and attract more people to the state.

Bob Donovan is our one chance to reverse course.

Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Lee Enterprises, which owns the Wisconsin State Journal as well as other dailies and weeklies in more than 70 other markets.

City redistricting shouldn’t overlook Hispanic community. But Muslims, too, deserve consideration.

The U.S. is right to help diplomatically safeguard Ukraine, but avoid a wider war.

For the second time in as many days and third time in two weeks, a law enforcement officer has been shot on the streets of Milwaukee and, for what seems like the hundredth time in the past six months, the suspect was free on bail even though he faces multiple open felony cases that include charges of bail jumping.

There’s a line where cluelessness gives way to deliberately dangerous political posturing, and Johnson crossed it last week when he crashed a clown car full of quacks into the public health debate.

In the state legislature, I listened to either ill-informed comments or intentional misrepresentations about critical race theory. I couldn’t help but note that it all felt like the making of a new version of the Willie Horton ad.

UW-Madison gets too much of state funding, campuses like UWM get too little.