The problem is not Joe Manchin. The problem is the left.

The political games continue at Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Josh Kaul’s highly partisan Department of Justice.

The departing chancellor is a bonafide A-lister. Finding another — given the relentless interference in UW-Madison by anti-intellectual Republicans in the Legislature — will likely be extremely difficult.

The on-again off-again health restrictions forcing businesses into compliance have created daily uncertainty and anxiety. And now, the president and government are poised to punish Wisconsin businesses further by forcing them to pay higher taxes to fund a multi-trillion dollar laundry list of pie-in-the-sky liberal ideas and programs.

Election ‘investigations’ and gerrymandering are all part of the same game.

The Gableman campaign in 2008 unleashed a vicious campaign of attacks on then-Justice Louis Butler, which took cues from the “Willie Horton” ad that supporters of former President George H.W. Bush used to smear his Democratic rival, Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, in 1988.

If Evers and his show commission really wanted fair political maps they would have stuck to the principles that the commission set out when it started Evers’ redistricting charade. But they have ignored most of those principles, even ignoring the Voting Rights Act.

Senate Bill 449 awards grants to schools to provide critical incident mapping data to law enforcement agencies.

As budget debates and ARPA funding discussions heat up in Milwaukee, one thing has become crystal clear: The state has not been a good partner to its largest, most diverse city. That needs to change.

Now is the time to listen to doctors and scientists.

Gov. Tony Evers’ politically-motivated Department of Natural Resources and liberal Attorney General Josh Kaul are pulling a number of stunts to stop the conservative-led DNR Board from seeking outside legal counsel, according to board Vice Chairman Gregory Kazmierski.

The “Reaching Higher for Higher Education” package builds off of Gov. Tony Evers’ commitment to college affordability.

Distract the public with ignorant bills, then cut education funding and leave students unsafe.

To strengthen civics education, we need a Wisconsin Civics Advisory Council.

In order to evolve in a post-COVID society, America must embrace a more robust child care subsidy program.

A group of “Build Back Better” protesters chased U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema into the bathroom at Arizona State University. They literally taped her going into a stall. This is totally outrageous. It is also illegal.

The “Party of Dane County” can squeak out statewide wins by running up huge numbers and margins here, but it can’t take back the Legislature that way. For that it needs to bring an endangered species back from the brink of extinction: the moderate Democrat.

I don’t have any suggestions on how Madison could recognize a politician who has meant so much to its success. But it should find a way.